Edmund Hubert Hagan

Edmund ‘Ted’ Hagan, 95, of East Lansing, MI died in his home on August 9, 2025. Ted loved to talk and learn about people. He was always asking questions and instilling his wisdom to his family and friends.

Ted was born on April 12, 1930 in Windsor, Ontario, the son of Hubert George Hagan, and Rhoda Donalda (MacDonald) Hagan. Ted had an older brother named Raymond McDonald Hagan. Both boys attended King George school. World War II began, and it was exciting for a nine-year-old boy to watch the Canadian army and Air Force prepare for war.

The family immigrated to the United States in late 1941 to live in Saint Clair Shores, MI. Here, Ted’s interest in sailing began. Ted and his brother bought a small snipe sailboat and sailed on Lake Saint Clair. Ted was active in football and track and field sports at Southlake High School.

His college choice was Albion College to study premed/predental. Ted participated in athletics, throwing the javelin and played football. After three years at Albion, Ted was accepted to the University of Michigan to study dentistry.

Following graduation from Dental School, Ted joined the US Navy. He was initially stationed at Great Lakes training center but wishing to see more of the world he applied for transfer and received orders to be the dental officer on the USS Baltimore in Japan and Pacific area.

On a late night flight from Denver to San Francisco, Ted met and was enamored with Pat Samuelson, a pretty young flight attendant. Ted asked her if she would have breakfast with him in the morning. Luckily for Ted, she agreed. Ted wrote letters describing his new interesting life at sea. Pat replied, and they planned to meet when the ship returned. After the completion of the western Pacific tour, the ship returned to California, and he met Pat when she flew in from San Francisco. Later, when the ship was transferred to the Seattle area, Pat met him there. Ted knew he wanted to marry her.

Leaving the cruiser, he then was assigned to the Franklin D Roosevelt, a modernized midway class carrier. After the shakedown cruise training in Puget Sound, they were ready for the long trip to join the Atlantic fleet. The ship left for San Francisco, Panama, Chile, and around the horn to Rio, and finally to Florida where he was discharged from the active Navy. After returning to Michigan in 1956, Ted began a residency and oral maxillofacial surgery at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, MI.

Pat and Ted were married in the second year of his residency and they enjoyed Ann Arbor. In 1959, they welcomed David, their first child. Pat was employed as a dietitian at Saint Joseph Hospital. After completing the residency and searching the United States for private practice location, they chose East Lansing in 1960. There was a need for a surgeon to treat facial trauma and Ted happily enjoyed the surgery which also allowed him to meet and enjoy friendships with the hospital’s medical staff and dental community. The oral surgery practice continued to grow, and the complexity of the maxilla facial surgery also expanded to cancer and facial reconstruction, skin and bone graphs, and improving orthognathic surgical treatment. Ted enjoyed a busy dynamic practice and also became president of the Michigan Society of Oral and Maxilla Facial surgeons and Chalmers, Lions Academy of OMS. Ted really enjoyed the difference he made in patient’s lives through his facial reconstruction work.

East Lansing was an enjoyable place to live and have a family. Soon they had three boys to be followed in seven years with a fourth son to complete their family.

Ted enjoyed college sports, hockey, basketball and football. In the summer he and Pat would visit the Stratford Festival every year for theater. He especially loved fly-in canoeing and fishing trips in northern Ontario. Ted’s family has a cottage on Big Basswood Lake in Canada that was Ted’s “little piece of Heaven”.

Family ski trips to Colorado and Utah and traveling to England were the bonus of family life. Pat and Ted also took trips to France, Norway, Italy, and the British Isles, Bermuda, the Caribbean and New Zealand.

Ted especially enjoyed living with Pat, his wonderful wife, and watching their four sons mature into four outstanding young men.

Ted is survived by his four sons and their wives: David Hagan and Patty, Chris Hagan and Martina, Chuck Hagan and Barb, and Tom Hagan and Amie; his seven grandchildren, Kevin Hagan (Stephanie), Michael Hagan (Nayara) Dan Hagan (Nathaly), Chad Hagan, Chris Hagan (Kelly), Caroline “Carly” Hagan Brogan (Grant), and Alexander Hagan and four great grandchildren, Fiona and Connor Hagan, Nolan Hagan, and Emerson Brogan. He was predeceased by his wife Patricia Samuelson Hagan, his brother Raymond Hagan and his parents.

Private family services will be held at a later date.