A Memorial Mass for David Michael Judge, M.D., age 72, of Livermore, CA, will begin at 10:30 a.m. on Saturday, June 14, 2008, at St. Lawrence Catholic Church in Milbank. Father Ken Lulf will be the celebrant. David died suddenly at his home in Livermore on February 4, 2008. The organist will be Sheila Dailie and the St. Lawrence Funeral Choir will provide special music. Norwood BayBridge will be the solo bagpiper. There will be no visitation. Family members are asked to meet in the church chapel by 10:00 a.m. Saturday to attend his funeral mass. Burial of his cremated remains will be in the parish cemetery. In lieu of other considerations, persons wishing to honor David's memory may send contributions in his name to the St. John's University scholarship fund at St. John's University, P.O. Box 7222, Collegeville, MN, 56321. The Emanuel-Patterson Funeral Home in Milbank is in charge of the arrangements.
David Michael Judge was born in Milbank on January 31, 1936, the son of Dr. Walter T. and Marian (Kennedy) Judge. He graduated from Milbank High School in 1954 and from St. John's University in Collegeville, MN, in 1959. He attended the University of South Dakota briefly and then graduated from the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, MO. After doing resident studies in pathology at Washington University and research in tropical diseases at Tulane University in New Orleans, the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology sent him to study tropical pathology in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, under the auspices of the Naval Medical Research Unit in 1967. His foreign travels also took him to Tehran, Nairobi, Kampala, Cairo, Athens, Rome, Madrid, and Lisbon.
Upon his return to the U.S. in 1970, he debriefed military authorities in the Washington, D.C. area, returned to St. Louis for a final year of residency, then taught and did research at the St. Louis University School of Medicine until his appointment in the Department of Pathology at the Hershey Medical School in Pennsylvania in 1972.
The Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, invited David to join the pathology department there in 1976 where he eventually specialized in bone. In 1990 he moved to Memphis, TN, to work for a private pathology group. He moved back to the Midwest for more work in clinical pathology in Belleville, IL, and retired there in 1999.
In August 2006, David moved to CA to be near his children and grandchildren after fighting life-threatening complications resulting from a broken ankle. Not too long after, David was at the top of his game again, deep in genealogy research, enjoying life on his own with his beloved dogs, MacAndrews and Bridget, and reveling in good cups of coffee and the occasional piece of dark chocolate.
David is survived by his daughter Anne Bowling and husband James, Livermore, CA; his son Michael Judge and wife Melissa, Pleasanton, CA; three grandchildren, Alexander Judge, Pleasanton, CA, and Catherine and Jonathan Bowling, Livermore, CA; his sister, Phyllis Judge, Milbank; and three sisters-in-law, Margaret Judge, Crystal City, MO, Joan Judge, Cincinnati, OH, and Kay Judge, Tucson, AZ.
He was preceded in death by his parents and three brothers, Walter Thomas Judge, Joseph Robert Judge, and John Oliver Judge.