Roll Call Tribute

Published in Houston Chronicle on Oct. 30, 2016

Dr. Agile Redmon Jr.(1924 - 2016)
Dr. Agile H. Redmon, Jr.
1924-2016
Dr. Agile Hugh Redmon, Jr. born December 17, 1924 in Galveston, TX, died October 20, 2016. He passed away peacefully at his home surrounded by family.
Agile spent one semester in the Corps of Cadets at Texas A&M, played in the band, and became an Aggie for life. He then joined the Navy in order to attend Baylor College of Medicine and become a doctor in 1948. He interned at the Naval Hospital, San Diego, CA, and did his Internist Residency in Houston in the Baylor program. While in the Naval Reserve, he was called to active duty in 1953. During this time, he helped establish the Navy's first allergy program at the Naval Hospital under Dr. Edmund Keeney, medical director of Scripps, La Jolla. Dr. Redmon became the first allergy resident in the Scripps program.
Agile married Dora Bastiani in 1957 at the USN Hospital Chapel, San Diego, CA. They moved to Houston where Agile joined in practice with Dr. DeWitt Hotchkiss, an allergy pioneer and Baylor clinical professor. Eventually, he joined forces with Dr. Richard Barrick to form what became Allergy & Asthma Associates. During his career, he became co-director of and attending physician in the Jefferson Davis and Ben Taub General Hospital Allergy Clinics, director of the Ben Taub Allergy Clinic, as well as Clinical Associate Professor at Baylor College of Medicine.
Agile loved people and politics. He was a parishioner and past Parish Council and men's choir member of St. Thomas More Catholic Church. He continued to offer support, working with the church's Good Samaritan program in his later years. He was a Harris County Republican precinct party chairman, took his family on their first vacation to the Republican state convention in the late 60s, and just recently accepted Goldwater's defeat.
He served in numerous capacities as a member of various organizations, including vice president of the Harris County Medical Society, president of both the Houston Academy of Medicine and the Houston Allergy Society, founding president of the Texas Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology Society, and governor and chairman of the Academy's Federation of S.R. & L. Allergy Societies. He served as the director of the Southwest Allergy Forum. In 1998, he received the Outstanding Volunteer Clinical Faculty Award during the annual AAAAI meeting that year. He was certified by the American Board of Allergy and Immunology.
Agile was predeceased by his parents, Agile and Natalie Redmon; and wife of 39 years, Dora Bastiani Redmon. He is survived by his brother; John Redmon & his wife, Jackie; sons & daughters-in-law, Jimmy & Sandy Redmon; John & Kristy Redmon; his daughter, Colleen Carroll; grandchildren, Brent, Jacob & Rachael Redmon; great-grandson, River Redmon; nephew, James Redmon; and his long-time companion, Ann Hughes.
Agile Redmon was truly a remarkable man with a strong sense of service, family, tough love, and a great sense of humor. Whether mentoring new physicians, treating his patients everywhere, supporting his sons' entrepreneurial exploits, or just making everyone laugh at a party, Agile touched people with his generosity and care throughout his entire life.
A funeral mass will be held at 11:00 a.m., Thursday, November 3, 2016, at St. Thomas More Catholic Church, 10330 Hillcroft in Houston, TX with Archbishop Joseph Fiorenza and Fr. Ken Heberlein celebrating. There will be a reception afterwards.
Donations can be made in lieu of flowers to the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate, www.oblatemissions.org




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