Thomas Roy Hagar

Thomas Roy Hagar died in his sleep at the Lodge at the Woods in Little River, CA on Feb. 18 after a short illness. He was 93. Hagar was born June 17, 1916 in Sparks, NV, to Anna Sorensen Hagar and Roy Hagar. As a child he lived in Sparks and Carlin, NV. He graduated Engineering School at the University of Nevada, Reno with a degree in electrical engineering in June, 1950, becoming the first member of his family to get a college degree. In 1951, he moved his family to Fresno, where he became the assistant plant manager at the Pacific Fruit Express icing facility. In 1953, he took an engineering job with the Pacific Railway Equipment Company in Los Angeles, and the family settled in the San Gabriel Valley suburb of West Covina, where their third child, Laura, was born in 1960. He is survived by his wife of nearly 70 years, Rose Kennedy, his daughters Marilyn Hagar of Mendocino, Laura Hagar-Rush and son-in-law Christopher Rush of Forestville, and son Roy Hagar and daughter-in-law Susan Hagar of Pope Valley, California, as well as grandchildren, Christine Mackie, Corinne Gartner; Erik, Gabriel, and Eli Asarian; and Jamie and Miranda Rush; and great grandsons, Aidan (6) and Noel (3) Mackie, Graham Gartner (18 mos.), and 4-month-old Andrew Asarian. A family memorial will be held in Mendocino on Saturday, May 27. His ashes will be scattered in the Ruby Mountains by his children and grandchildren when the snows melt this summer. Donations can be made in his name to the Mendocino Children’s Fund, (www.mccf.info) P O Box 1616, Mendocino, CA 95460-1616 707-937-6111.