J. David Hunger, 72, Saint Joseph, died April 10, 2014, at Country Manor under the care of Saint Cloud Hospital Hospice.
Funeral Services will be Monday, April 14, 2014, at 11:00 a.m. at Resurrection Lutheran Church with a 10:00 a.m. visitation at the church in St. Joseph. Pastor Dwaine Bruns and Pastor Linda Lagergren will officiate. Cremated remains will be interred at Minnesota State Veterans Cemetery in a private service at a later time. Arrangements are with the Daniel Funeral Home, St. Joseph.
David was born May 17, 1941 in New Kensington, Pennsylvania, to Jack and Betty (Carey) Hunger. Married Betty Johnson on August 2, 1969, in Cincinnati, Ohio. He graduated from Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio, in 1963, went on to serve as a Captain in U.S. Army Intelligence during the Viet Nam War. After the war he continued his education receiving a Ph. D. from The Ohio State University.
Dr. Hunger taught at Baldwin Wallace College, University of Virginia, and George Mason University. He was Professor Emeritus at Iowa State University, where he taught for 23 years. Most recently he was the Strategic Management Scholar in Residence at Saint John’s University in Collegeville, Minnesota.
Along with co-author Thomas L. Wheelen, he authored a variety of Strategic Management text books including 14 editions of Strategic Management and Business Policy. He was a member of the Academy of Management, the North American Case Research Association, the Society for Case Research, the North American Management Society, the Textbook and Academic Authors Association, and the Strategic Management Society. He is past President of the North American Case Research Association, the Society for Case Research and the Iowa State University Press Board of Directors. He also served as a Vice President of the U.S. Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship. He was recognized in 1999 by the Iowa State University College of Business with its Innovation in Teaching award and was elected a Fellow of the Teaching and Academic Authors Association and of the North American Case Research Association.
David, an active member of Resurrection Church, served as Web Master. He enjoyed golfing, bowling and boating with friends. He had a lifelong love of trains and was an active member of a local railroading club.
He is survived by his wife, Betty Hunger of St. Joseph and his four daughters: Kari McMullen (Jeff), Suzi Schandoney (Nick), Lori Carmichael (Derek), and Merry Kelley (Dylan) as well as five grandchildren: Maddie and Meggie McMullen, Summer and Kacey Schandoney, and Edan David Gregory Kelley. He also leaves behind two siblings Jane Senderak (John) and Jim Hunger (Terry) as well as extended family including cousins, nieces and nephews. He was proceeded in death by his parents, Betty and Jack.
David was a great friend and research collaborator. He sent me his great book Strategic Management and Business Policy.
He was a very unassuming, kind and great intellectual. We planned to collaborate on a book in 1999-2000 but never materialised….
May his soul rest in peace.
Adebowale Akande
Vancouver, BC, Canada
I was lucky enough to be with my brother for the last week of his life, to be there for him and provide comfort as best as I could. He will always be my big brother who I could count on for anything. I feel very blessed that I was there when he died and know for a fact that he is in heaven with mom and dad. He will be greatly missed by all. No better brother is there than David Hunger.
I was fortunate enough to talk with David at the MBAAI Conference in Chicago in March. I believe he came to say good-bye to people he cared about and who cared about him. Since many of us did not know he was fighting cancer, we were shocked by his thinness. But his voice and mind were strong. I recognized his voice first and went over to express my concern. David said, “Jann I have three months to a year to live. But I am lucky. I know when the end is so I get to say what I want/need to say to the people who matter most.” We were both on a panel talking about how to get published. He had great advice and was so proud of his textbook–which I have used for 30 years. I took him to the business meeting and we talked about how he was on my dissertation committee. While I did not know this, he told me I was his one and only dissertation student since ISU did not have a PhD program in management. I thanked him and he told me how proud he was of me and what I had accomplished. When I asked about Tom Wheelen, he said he died a few years ago and how hard that was on him to lose a long time friend and colleague. When we wheeled him back to his hotel room, he said to Jeff (another conference friend) and me, “It has been nice knowing both of you.” And we thanked him for everything he did for us, for NAMS, for Case Research.
David was a smart guy who was willing to share his wisdom with others. He was a big fish in a little pond at the MBAAI, but he came because he liked the people. He was charismatic and energetic. He had so many ideas and loved being a teacher. We will miss him, but always remember him. Jann Freed
David and I have been friends since we were in kindergarden together a long, long time ago. We had some interesting experiences together over the early years and even managed to take R&R together, along with another old friend – Mike Beres – in Hong Kong in 1967. I haven’t seen David since he and Betty visited Jo and me in California a number of years ago, but we kept in touch, albeit only lightly, thru the years via the annual Christmas card exchange. I’m sorry we didn’t meet in person more often. He was a great pal. Rest in peace, my friend.
Although I have know David for 25 years, I just got to know him well 3 weeks ago. A great man with the right outlook on life and death. He shared thoughts about his life and his role in everybody else’s life moving forward. Profound thoughts, from a profound man. Thank you David for what you gave to me. He will be missed.
J. David Hunger, 72, Saint Joseph, died April 10, 2014, at Country Manor under the care of Saint Cloud Hospital Hospice.
Funeral Services will be Monday, April 14, 2014, at 11:00 a.m. at Resurrection Lutheran Church with a 10:00 a.m. visitation at the church in St. Joseph. Pastor Dwaine Bruns and Pastor Linda Lagergren will officiate. Cremated remains will be interred at Minnesota State Veterans Cemetery in a private service at a later time. Arrangements are with the Daniel Funeral Home, St. Joseph
