George Haggerty Obituary - Death Notice and Service Information

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Los Angeles, California

October 17, 1949 - June 30, 2023 George E. Haggerty, III, Ph.D., a Palm Springs resident, passed away peacefully on June 30, 2023. George was a retired Dept. Head and Distinguished Professor of English Literature at the University of California, Riverside, & a prolific scholar with a lasting...

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George was a wonderful friend and a great teacher. I'm grateful to have had him as my friend. I miss him a great deal.

Steve Axelrod

November 09, 2024 | Friend

George was an incredibly supporting advisor who was always there for his students, guiding us, encouraging us to do our best, treating us like family, and teaching us to love eighteenth-century literature as much as he did. I am so grateful and lucky to have been his student and his friend. I will always treasure our conversations about our favorites: Burney, Inchbald, Edgeworth... Nobody else but George could have made studying for PhD exams fun. I will always remember him as forever young,...

Flavia Ruzi

July 26, 2023 | School