Jack Walter Carl Kling Hagstrom of Water Mill died November 14, 2019. He was 85.
Dr. Hagstrom, the scion of an ancient Scandinavian family, graduated with honors from Amherst College in 1955. He attended Cornell University Medical College and did post-graduate work in pathology at New York Hospital. He was subsequently on the pathology faculties of Cornell University, Case Western Reserve University, and retired as Professor of Pathology from Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center/Harlem Hospital Center in 1991. He was an author of more than 100 scientific papers and co-author of two descriptive biographies of 20th century poets.
Dr. Hagstrom is survived by his partner, Thomas J. Fleming, also 85 years old. They were married in 2008 and lived in New York City and Water Mill.
One of Dr. Hagstrom’s keen interests was poetry. This began in his freshman year at Amherst College when he met Robert Frost at a poetry reading and continued until the poet’s death in 1963. During that time he organized and attended many conferences with Frost.
A funeral service was held November 21 at St. Ann’s Episcopal Church in Bridgehampton.
on Nov 21, 2019