John Dages Obituary
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Stewart Hockenberry
August 22, 2019
Yesterday, I Googled John to see what he was up to and was greatly saddened to learn of his untimely death. John had been a good friend and ally through our graduate school years and the many shifts we shared working as psychiatric technicians at Bloomington Hospital. My lasting warmest memories of those Bloomington years have John woven throughout them. John had an infectious good humor about life and its complexities. He was always interested and curious about what was going on around us with attention drawn to what new things we might learn from an experience.
I remember particularly John's presence when our first daughter, Emily, was born during graduate school and still have fixed in memory the image of John holding her as a baby and then a little later as a toddler John running up and down the halls of Bloomington Hospital pushing Emily in a swivel chair as she squealed in excitement.
John was always a supportive reliable ear at my points of inspiration, stress or confusion and had an uncommon ability to bring me back to a sensible point of reality without me ever feeling admonished. I admired John's initiative which often seemed so bold to me but then worked out to his favorthis has remained a valuable example for me.
My last contact with John was amazingly 19 years ago now when John called out of the blue shortly after we moved into our house and the day after our second daughter Erin was born. It was an exciting time for both of us as John was setting his sights on new horizons of his own. A few days later I received a book by our professor Alan Bell that John sent me knowing it would be of great interest to me.
As so easily happens we have dropped out of touch over the hurried years of profession and family but with the assuring thought that we would eventually link-up again. I grieve that this opportunity has now passed but will always hold in special memory our important times shared together.
My thoughts will be with you, John's family, as I share with you the great privilege of having had John in my life. Warmest wishes,
Stewart Hockenberry
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