Dr. Jack Peter Schwartz's Obituary
Dr. Jack Peter Schwartz
June 26, 1930 - February 4, 2024
Redlands, CA
Age 93, of Redlands, California, passed away on February 4, 2024.
Jack was born on June 26, 1930, to Samuel and Anne Schwartz in New York, and grew up in Montreal, Canada. After Jack graduated from Strathcona High School in1947, he went on to study at McGill University, receiving a Bachelor of Arts degree in1951.
After graduating from McGill, he began medical school overseas, at the University ofParis, but after one year transferred to the University of Lausanne, in Switzerland,which changed the trajectory of his life. There he met fellow students who would become his life-long friends and colleagues and, on New Year’s Eve, 1956, met JocelyneIschi, from Payerne, Switzerland. They quickly fell in love and married on March 31,1958, in Montreal.
Following medical school graduation in 1957, Jack began his internship and residencyat the Jewish General Hospital (Montreal) and then completed his specialization inHematology at Montefore Hospital, in the Bronx, NY. Thereafter, Jack and Jocelynemoved back to Montreal, where Jack became a staff physician in Hematology/Oncologyat the Jewish General Hospital, and where he and Jocelyne raised their children, Anne,born in 1960, and Mark, born in 1963.
In 1983, Jack and Jocelyne decided to leave Montreal for Southern California, whereJack joined the Inland Hematology Oncology Medical Group in San Bernardino, CA,becoming Chief of Staff of the St. Bernadine Medical Center in 1990, and where hestayed until his retirement in the year 2000. Jack was passionate about the professionof medicine and the practice of Hematology/Oncology, and he continued to share hisexpertise and volunteer his services to the St. Bernadine medical community by servingon various committees at the hospital for the next twenty years.
Jack loved photography, classical music, opera, and reading, but more than anythinghe loved Jocelyne. Together, they shared a deep love for travel, fne food and wine,and, of course, family. They spent many wonderful weeks each year in Switzerlandand other far-fung places with family and friends, exploring new sites and enjoyinggastronomical delights. After Jocelyne passed away in 2015, from that point on, lifejust wasn’t the same.
In addition to Jocelyne, Jack was predeceased by his brother Leslie, step-brother Gordon, and his nephew Andrew. He is survived by his daughter Anne (Edwin) Carlson,his son Mark (Naomi) Schwartz, loving grandchildren Sophie, Dyllon, Duncan, Ezraand Hillel, and his step-brother Michael, as well as plenty of nieces, nephews, family,and friends.
Services will be held at Congregation Emanu El in Redlands on Wednesday, February7, 2024 at 12:00 pm. In lieu of fowers, the family requests donations to the AmericanCancer Society.
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