Dr Dwight Jordan Hotchkiss Jr

August 6, 1928 - August 30, 2020

Hotchkiss, Dr. Dwight Jordan, Jr. died Sunday, August 30, 2020 at the Hospice of the Foothills Cottingham House in Seneca, SC. Dwight was born August 6, 1928 in Philadelphia, PA. He was the son of Dwight Jordan Hotchkiss and Ruth Florence Vaughan Hotchkiss. He attended Upper Darby High School and graduated from the University of Rochester and the University of Pennsylvania Medical School. After his internship in Philadelphia he served two years in the Army stationed in Germany. After returning from Germany he completed his residency at the University of Colorado Medical School in Hematology. He moved to Flemington NJ where he practiced at the Hunterdon Medical Center for thirty years. It was there he passed the Boards in Oncology. In 1990 he retired and moved to Keowee Key in South Carolina. He worked part time for several years doing Locum Tenens. While at Keowee Key he served on several committees and for several years he served as President of the Hospice of the Foothills Board and was instrumental in raising the funds to build the Cottingham House. He is survived by his wife of fifty-nine years Mary Ann (Pospahala) Hotchkiss and two children, Diane Hotchkiss Tiller and David Hotchkiss (Lisa), and four grandchildren, Krystal, Nick, Matthew, and Samantha, and one great-grandchild, Colton. No service is planned at this time. Donations can be made in his memory to Prisma Health Hospice of the Foothills, C/O Oconee Memorial Hospital Foundation, 298 Memorial Drive, SC 29672