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Services will be Saturday for Dr. John Hoesing, a longtime Omaha physician who died Tuesday at home of pancreatic cancer. He was 68.
Hoesing was born and reared in Omaha, attended Creighton University and graduated from the University of Nebraska College of Medicine in 1967. He did a one-year internship at Wayne County General Hospital in Detroit and returned to Omaha for a three-year internal medicine residency at his alma mater. He was chief resident in 1970 and ’71.
He joined Drs. Robert Long, William Graham and John Sage in their internal medicine practice and remained for 38 years, through several office moves, name changes and new partners.
Hoesing worked part-time as assistant medical director at Mutual of Omaha, medical director of Immanuel Medical Center’s Alcoholism Treatment Center, the Eppley Treatment Center at Methodist Midtown and Methodist Richard Young. He also served as a clinical associate professor for the University of Nebraska Medical Center’s Department of Internal Medicine.
In the last 10 years, Hoesing focused strictly on his internal medicine practice.
He became a fellow in the American College of Physicians in 1982.
He was active in the group at the state and national levels, serving as the Nebraska group’s governor from 1996-2000.
He also served as president of Methodist Hospital Staff and president of the Nebraska Chapter of Alpha Omega Alpha honorary medical society.
Survivors include his wife of 44 years, Pam; children Dr. Keri Philpot of Kearney, Neb., Kristen O’Brien of Westchester, Ohio, and J.J. Hoesing of Seattle; and seven grandchildren.
Services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at Christ the King Catholic Church, 654 S. 86th St.
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