George Lynn Hagen |
| Posted 2021-05-17 by mhenderson |
| Published by Arizona Daily Sun on May 9, 2021 - Flagstaff, Arizona - On April 30th, 2021, George Lynn Hagen went home to be with the Lord. His ferocious faith and generous smile embraced many. He shared a love of travel, cars, his dog Tiny, and Italy with his wife Carol, and daughters, Laurah, Carmel, and Julia. God blessed him with unique talents and gifts, among them an insatiable appetite to learn and innovate. Lynn was a serial entrepreneur and named inventor on twenty-nine patents. He founded or served as an executive of several companies including Osborne Computer, the pioneering maker of the first portable computer; Axxess Technologies®, reinventor of key duplication for retailers; Upper Deck®, a trading card and sports memorabilia company; Taymac®, reinventor of electrical products; Keyworks®, consumer- operated key duplication kiosks; and Tagworks®, laser-engraved pet identification tags. Lynn loved the challenge of multidimensional problem solving. A deep strategic thinker who obsessively enjoyed learning, idea generation, and the problem-solving process, he knew that the best ideas were born from hard work. He understood that design was only done once concepts were distilled to the point of a simplicity so elegant, a user would think, "of course that's what you would do." Lynn loved hiking the Brookbank Trail, driving around town with the windows down and his dog by his side, and applying his creativity to everyday problems, like finding the best and least known solution for his daughter's poison ivy. He loved his friends, business partners, family, and neighbors, and enjoyed telling them jokes and anecdotes about his latest interests, often repeatedly. He died without ever knowing how fast his daughter's prom dates drove his car, which is for the best. Lynn studied the Scriptures regularly and believed wholeheartedly that 'the Word of God is living and active' as Hebrews 4:12 teaches. Preceded in death by his sister Karolynn Moody, mother Nadine Holm and his father George Hagen. He is survived by his wife Carol Hagen, his daughters Laurah Hagen, Carmel Hagen and husband Michael Rubenstein, granddaughter Stella, daughter Julia Hagen, brother Brook Hagen, and many nieces and nephews. In lieu of flowers please send donations to Quality Connections Flagstaff at QualityConnections.org. A Celebration of Life will be held this summer. |
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