Daniel Charles MacDougall
August 12, 1937 – October 15, 2023
Husband, Father, Pharmacist, Anesthesiologist, Amateur Photographer, World Traveler
Born in Jeffersonville, Indiana, Dan was into photography as a teen, even building his own darkroom in the basement. He did “selfies” before they were popular, earning him a cover photo on The Bugle Call, in 1952. In 1958, he married Norma Gayle Zinkan and they eventually had five children (one died in infancy).
The Louisville (KY) College of Pharmacy became part of the University of Kentucky in 1946 but stayed in Louisville. Dan started school there in 1956, and the school moved to Lexington in 1957. Dan graduated and worked as a pharmacist prior to entering medical school. He continued working his pharmacist job, even though it was forbidden for medical school students to work. He was creative, making himself a fold-down desk in the bathroom of their tiny apartment so he could study (the toilet was his chair). In 1964, he graduated with honors in the first class of the University of Kentucky College of Medicine.
He served his country in the Army and spent two years at Valley Forge Army Medical Center as an anesthesiologist. After the Army he returned to Lexington to join the faculty of U of K medical school as well as working in the hospital. He eventually became Chief of Anesthesia before moving to Mesa, AZ in 1972. The rest of his career was spent in AZ, mostly at Mesa Lutheran Hospital, but later as a traveling anesthesiologist and at Phoenix Neurological Institute.
Dan moved to Huntsville, AL in 2018 to be near his daughter and son-in-law, Karen and Philip Ager.
He was preceded in death by his parents, Daniel Campbell MacDougall and Bertha Mary Elizabeth Hutt MacDougall; two sisters, Elizabeth (Betty) MacDougall and Dorothy MacDougall (both Catholic nuns in the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth); and a son, Patrick David MacDougall.
He is survived by Norma G MacDougall; children, Daniel M MacDougall, Karen M (MacDougall) Ager, Julia A MacDougall, and John C MacDougall; and grandchildren, Abby Vogel and Tyler MacDougall.
A memorial service will be held on Saturday, November 18 at Laughlin Service Funeral Home. Visitation from 1 to 3 p.m. with the service at 3 p.m.
In lieu of flowers memorials may be made to the University of Kentucky College of Medicine (https://medicine.uky.edu/sites/philanthropy).
