Dwight Carroll Hoeg was born in Lake View, Iowa, on Aug. 11, 1926, to Therese Momsen Hoeg and Nelson S. Hoeg.

He attended the Lake View public schools graduating from high school in 1943 as class valedictorian.

He entered the United States Navy in 1944 and was assigned to the Naval V-12 unit at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. He was discharged from the Navy in 1945 and continued his college education at the University of Minnesota. He received a Bachelor of Arts magna cum laude and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He also received a Bachelor of Science in medicine. He then enrolled in Harvard Medical School where he earned an MD degree in 1950. He interned and had part of his medical residency training at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital at Harvard from 1950-1952.

By this time, he had met Janet L. Fraser who was attending Wellesley College in Massachusetts. Upon her graduation in 1952 they were married in the Congregational church in Garden City, New York.

Shortly after his marriage, Dwight was reactivated into the Navy to serve in the Korean War. He first served at the Boston Naval Shipyard and then was assigned for a year to the Marine Corps as a battalion surgeon in Korea. While in Korea, he had the distinction of being one of the doctors who attended returning American POW's from North Korea. In 1954 he again returned to the Boston Naval Shipyard where his duties included medical officer for the U.S. Constitution, better known as "Old Ironsides."

He returned to civilian life as chief medical resident to the Harvard Medical Services at the Boston City Hospital.

Upon completion of his medical training, he and his wife moved to Minnesota where he joined the staff at the Duluth Clinic on Jan. 1, 1957. He retired from the Clinic on Jan, 1, 1993. During those 36 years he was a staff member of all three Duluth hospitals. He served as both chief of the medical departments and as chief of staff at St. Mary's Hospital and Miller-Dwan Hospital. He also served as chairman of the board at St. Mary's Hospital and at the Duluth Clinic. He was chairman of the building committee at the Clinic at the time the 3rd Street Building was built and the Clinic moved from 205 West 2nd Street. He also served for many years on the board of St. Anne's Home.

In his retirement he and his wife spent most of their time in their home in Heathrow, Fla., but returned to their Duluth home during the summers.

Dwight was predeceased by his wife Janet in 2008.

He is survived by three sons: Stewart (Kathleen), Richard (Molly), and William (Ellen); six grandchildren: Karen (Matt), Carl, Erik, Tyler, Austin, and Erin, and two great-grandchildren: Ben and Mya. He also is survived by his brother, Graham, and was predeceased by a sister, Mary Lou.

MEMORIAL SERVICE: 10:45 a.m. Wednesday, Feb. 11, in the Forest Hill Cemetery Chapel at 2516 Woodland Avenue in Duluth. All are invited.

In lieu of flowers, the family asks that you consider making a gift to Harvard Medical School in Dr. Dwight Hoeg's memory. Harvard Medical School, Office of Resource Development 401 Park Drive, Suite 22 Boston, MA 02215. Arrangements by Dougherty Funeral Home, Duluth, 218-727-3555.