JOSEPH HAFKENSCHIEL

HAFKENSCHIEL--Joseph H.,

Jr. M.D. Resident of Portola Valley, CA. Joseph passed away of natural causes on October 26, 2016 in Portola Valley, California. He was born on April 2, 1916 in Youngstown, Ohio, the son of Joseph Henry and Anna Conroy Hafkenschiel. He graduated from Rayen High School in 1933, Swarthmore College in 1937, and Johns Hopkins Medical School in 1941. He did an internship and residency in Medicine at the Univ. of Penn. where he met his future wife, Lucinda Buchanan Thomas and was married in July, 1942. After Lucinda's death, he was married to Carol Rush for 20 years. That marriage ended in divorce. From 1943-45 he served in the U.S. Army Air Corps in the China-Burma-India Theater where he instructed pilots in the use of oxygen for high altitude flights. After the war he did a fellowship in Cardiology at Penn, and practiced and did research at Lankenau Hospital. In 1965, he accepted a position as Medical Director for Sandoz in San Francisco. He later served on the staff of the Stanford Cardiac Clinic, Stanford Student Health, the Menlo Park V.A. Hospital, and Agnews Hospital. His lifelong passion for golf began while caddying in high school. He was a member of Merion Golf Club, Seaview Country Club, and San Francisco Golf Club. He is survived by his sons Joseph III, Tom, Mark, and John; his daughters-in- law, Cynthia, Wendy and Jaclyn Jean; his grandchildren Erin, Alex, Ian and Haley; his grandson-in-law, Ryan Donnelly, and his great-granddaughter, Lucinda Easton Donnelly. In 2009, he reviewed his life in "Joseph H. Hafkenschiel, Jr., M.D. a 21st Century Memoir". A video memorial celebrating his life may be found at: www.youtube.com/watch?v= y460rdJ0BTc.