In Memoriam

John Michael Hungerman
1945-2024

COOPERSTOWN—John Michael Hungerman, 79, of Cooperstown, died unexpectedly on August 23, 2024 at The Cooperstown Center, where he was receiving rehab following a fall in his Cooperstown home. He was looking forward to returning home to his wife, Georgia Meeter Hungerman. Having been very healthy and active all his life, he began facing physical challenges with progressive supra-nuclear palsy, a brain-muscular disorder diagnosed in November 2023. Sadly, before he could return home, he succumbed to the weakened swallowing effects of PSP.

Born in Martins Ferry, Ohio on July 19, 1945, the first of six children, his father John was a mechanical engineer and mother Peg a homemaker. Michael attended St. John Vianney High School Seminary, graduating as salutatorian. He discerned he was not called to be a priest and took the path to become a psychologist. He graduated from the Franciscan University of Steubenville and earned a master’s degree and PhD at Kent State University in 1970. Next he worked as a counselor and adjunct professor at the University of Akron, and later a counselor at the College of Wooster. Michael went into private practice in the 1980s as a therapist and court forensics psychologist. During this time, he moved from Akron, Ohio to New York City and then Newtown, Connecticut, where he and late wife Joyce Livingston lived until her passing in 2017.