NWA Capt. Temple ‘Tem’ C. Hager

Belated notice....

~ IN MEMORY ~

SO/RC/NWA Capt. Temple ‘Tem’ C. Hager

June 25, 1940 ~ February 17, 2012

Belated notification of the passing of SO/RC/NWA retired pilot Captain Temple ‘Tem’ Hager, age 71. Captain Hager’s obituary notes that he hired on with Southern Airways in 1960 and retired with Northwest in 1997. Captain Hager is survived by his wife Patricia ‘Pat. The Hager’s residence:

87 Walton Magnolia Lane, Panama City Beach FL 32413-7203 ... (850) 231-5316

 

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TEMPLE (Tem) CALDWELL HAGER, SR Passed away on February 17, 2012, at the age of 71 at his home in Panama City, Florida.

Tem was the youngest child of Marjorie and Richard D. Hager, Sr. of Winston- Salem, NC. He was preceded in death by his parents and brother, Richard D. Hager, II.

 

Tem is survived by his loving wife of thirty years, Pat Farley Hager. Children, from a previous marriage, son, Temple C. Hager, Jr. (Kim) of Houston, TX and daughter, Holly Hager Von Gunten (Nick) of Germantown, TN, Grandchildren Ethan and Ava Von Gunten of Germantown, TN and nephew, Edward Hager of Trinidad, CO.

Tem was born in Atlanta, GA and lived in Winston-Salem, NC until his senior year in high school and graduated from Coral Gables High School (Florida) in 1958.

Tem came from a family who instilled a love of airplanes and flying in him. He wanted to pursue a flying career and in 1960, graduated from Embry Riddle Flight School in Miami, FL. For a short time after graduation he flew as a corporate pilot for Eastman Kodak in Bristol, TN. In 1960, his commercial career began as a pilot with Southern Airways which subsequently became Republic Airlines and Northwest Airlines. After

36 years as a commercial pilot, Tem retired from Northwest as a DC-10 Captain in 1997.

Tem loved life and never met a stranger. Retirement kept him busy with life on the beach, ham radio (WD4FGR), golfing, boating, fishing, evenings with friends and traveling to the cabin in Virginia during the summer to watch the river flow past their cabin. Tem loved his and Pat's many cruise vacations over the past three years.

Interment of ashes will be at Glenwood Cemetery in Bristol, TN, at a future date, at that time a celebration of life will take place with family and friends.

                                                     RJR Class of 1958

                         (R.J.Reynolds High School, Winston-Salem, NC)