Dr. Arthur Hauge, 90

Arthur Lyddon Hauge, MD, passed peacefully away Easter Sunday, March 27, 2016. Art was born Dec. 9, 1925, in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, the son of Adolph and Isabelle. He grew up in Coeur d’Alene and as a very active scout earned his Eagle Scout Badge at the age of 13. He graduated from Coeur d’Alene High School, joined the U.S. Navy and completed Officer Candidate School, and then continued his education at the University of California Berkeley earning a bachelor’s degree in economics and continued studying toward an MBA. He was on active duty from late in World War II, through the Korean War until 1957.

While stationed in Bayonne, N.J., he contacted the younger sister of one of his high school best friends. After a short courtship, he married Marie Phillips in Washington, D.C., on March 10, 1952. They had eight children together and were happily married for 56 years until Marie’s passing in 2008.

Art’s military career took a sharp turn, when he requested an assignment close to home in Idaho to help care for his ailing father. That experience, plus another when Marie fell critically ill, caused him to decide to become a doctor. He finished his second bachelor’s degree and entered medical school at the age of 32. He finished at the top of his class at University of Oregon Medical School in 1962.

After completing his internship at the Naval Hospital in San Diego, Art entered General Practice in St. Ignatius, Mont., where he practiced for four years and then returned to Portland to do an Orthopedic Surgery Residency. He went into private practice in Hillsboro and then joined the Orthopedic and Fracture Clinic. While in Portland, he enlisted in the U.S. Army Reserve. Several years later he decided to go back to work for the VA and became head of Orthopedics at the VA Hospital in Spokane, Wash. The family moved back to Coeur d’Alene where he and Marie had grown up.

An avid sailor since childhood, Art was a very active member of the Portland Yacht Club from 1972 until his death. He enjoyed racing his sloop, the Rowdy Lady II, along the Columbia and competed in the Oregon Offshore and Swiftsure multiple times and the Victoria-Maui race in 1980. He sailed across the Atlantic in 1992. In his lifetime, he sailed the world including Tahiti, Corsica and the Greek Isles. He also loved sailing in the San Juan Islands. His final cruise was in the Bahamas at the ripe old age of 89.

For his last 18 years, he enjoyed living on Puget Island where he could fish for salmon from his back yard and watch the ships sail past his living-room window.

He is survived by his sister, Dorothy McDonald (John); seven children, Betsy (Joe), Shirley (Greg), David (Suzy), Joe (Charlene), Tom (Yong), Peter (Caroline) and Kristina (Dan); and 11 grandchildren. He is preceded in death by his wife, Marie (2008) and his son, Joseph Russell (1962).

Graveside military rites will be provided at 10 a.m. Saturday, April 9, 2016, at Forest Cemetery followed by the memorial service at 11 a.m. at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in Coeur d’Alene. Yates Funeral Home, Coeur d’Alene, is in care of the arrangements. Memorial contributions can be made to the Shriner’s Children’s Hospital. You may visit Art’s online memorial and sign his guest book at www.yatesfuneralhomes.com.