{"id":28729,"date":"2024-12-30T08:29:01","date_gmt":"2024-12-30T13:29:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/?p=28729"},"modified":"2024-12-30T08:29:01","modified_gmt":"2024-12-30T13:29:01","slug":"former-maryland-agriculture-secretary-hagner-mister-passes-away-at-90","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/press-release\/2024\/12\/30\/former-maryland-agriculture-secretary-hagner-mister-passes-away-at-90\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Maryland Agriculture Secretary Hagner Mister Passes Away at 90"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Served as Maryland Agency\u2019s Sixth Agriculture Secretary\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

ANNAPOLIS, MD (December 30, 2024)<\/strong>– The\u00a0Maryland Department of Agriculture<\/strong>\u00a0is saddened to share the passing of the department\u2019s sixth Secretary, Hagner Mister, serving in the role from January 2001 to January 2003.\u00a0 Prior to being named Secretary, Hagner served as the Agency\u2019s Deputy Secretary for three years.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI was incredibly saddened to hear of the passing of former Secretary Hagner Mister,\u201d said\u00a0Maryland Department of Agriculture Secretary Kevin Atticks.<\/strong>\u00a0 \u201cHagner led the Department with grace and dedication, and Maryland\u2019s farmers benefited from his leadership.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Born in 1934, a lifelong resident of Calvert County, Hagner graduated from Calvert County High School then went on to serve in the Maryland National Guard and U.S. Army Reserves. Loyal to his Calvert County heritage, Hagner also served as a member of the Calvert County Board of County Commissioners, the Calvert County Board of Education, and the Tri-County Council for Southern Maryland.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In 2020, Hagner received the R. Clayton Mitchell Jr. Award for Distinguished Public Service from then Maryland Comptroller Peter Franchot.<\/span><\/p>\n

His greatest joy was that of being husband to Helen Ann and father to their three children, six grandchildren, and nine great grandchildren.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The family of Hagner Mister will receive friends on January 1, 2025, from 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm at Rausch Funeral Home-Owings, 8325 Mt. Harmony Lane, Owings, MD 20736. A Funeral Service will be held on January 2, 2024 starting at 11 a.m. at Trinity United Methodist Church, 90 Church Street, Prince Frederick, MD 20678.<\/span><\/p>\n

For Hagner\u2019s full obituary, please visit Rausch Funeral Home\u2019s\u00a0website<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Served as Maryland Agency\u2019s Sixth Agriculture Secretary\u00a0 ANNAPOLIS, MD (December 30, 2024)– The\u00a0Maryland Department of Agriculture\u00a0is saddened to share the passing of the department\u2019s sixth Secretary, Hagner Mister, serving in the role from January 2001 to January 2003.\u00a0 Prior to being named Secretary, Hagner served as the Agency\u2019s Deputy Secretary for three years.\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cI was  Read the Rest…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":222,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/222"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28729"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28731,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28729\/revisions\/28731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}