Suzanne Eva Hageman

HAGEMAN Mrs. Suzanne Eva (Volgyesi) April 5, 1936, Budapest- June 4, 2008, Toledo Mrs. Suzanne Hageman of Toledo, OH passed away Wednesday, June 4, 2008, at Hospice of Northwest Ohio. She was born in Budapest, Hungary on April 5, 1936, to Dr. and Mrs. Ferenc (Magda Tausik) Volgyesi. She attended the Evangelical Lutheran Elementary and Secondary School of Deakter from 1942-1952. She graduated from the Veres Palne State Secondary High School in 1954. Suzanne entered Szeged Hungary Medical School in the fall of 1954. She later continued her medical education at the Pazmany Peter Scientific University Medical School in Budapest until the October, 1956 student uprising against the Communist Hungarian Government. During the uprising she cared for the wounded soldiers and civilians at the Vass Utca Hospital in Budapest. After the Hungarian/Soviet Army defeated the student revolt, Suzanne and her brother Andrew had to leave Hungary. She obtained a laboratory assistant degree at the University of Louvain, Belgium School of Medicine. She emigrated to the USA in August 1959 to New Haven, CT. She completed an internship as a surgical laboratory assistant at the Yale University School of Medicine. In 1962 she graduated with a BS in Medical Technology from the Quinnipiac and took a position in the Clinical Microscopy laboratory at Yale. She met her former husband, John H. Hageman at the Yale School of Medicine. They were married on June 2, 1962, at the Dwight Memorial Chapel by the Rev. William Sloane Coffin. They were blessed with four daughters, Margaret, Martha, Diane, and Kimberly. The family moved to Detroit, MI in July, 1967. Suzanne cared for her family with love and devotion while she also worked full or part time at several hospitals in Michigan. The family moved to Toledo in 1985. Suzanne completed a Bachelor of Science in Nursing in 1990 at the University of Toledo-Medical College of Ohio Consortium. Until 2001, Suzanne worked in several Toledo area nursing homes as an RN. Mrs. Hageman's life focus has always been her education, her career, and her family. She is survived by her former husband, John Hageman; daughters, Margaret (Ed) Petrovich, Martha (Don Kirk) Hageman, Diane (Rick) Wickliff and Kim (Dave Felcan) Hageman; eight grandchildren; sister, Vera Ferenczi ; sisters-in-law, Elizabeth Volgyesi, Diane Volgyesi, Nancy Ullom and brother-in-law, James Ullom; nieces, nephews, grandnieces, grandnephews and cousins. Visitation will be held on Monday, June 9, from 12 noon until 2:00 p.m. at Epworth United Methodist Church, 3077 Valleyview Dr., with funeral services starting at 2:00 p.m. Interment will be at the Reformed Dutch Church Cemetery of Claverack, New York. Memorial contributions may be made to Myelodysplasia International Foundation, P.O. Box 310, Churchton, MD 20733. Arrangements by the Walker Funeral Home, 419- 841-2422.Condolences may be sent to the family at www.walkerfuneralhomes.com