MAHON, Christopher

MAHON Dr. Christopher B. Consultant Psychiatrist (Galway and Florida, US) - Chris died at home on December 22, 2014 in Ft Lauderdale, Florida at age 78. As the First Anniversary of his death approaches, the Mahon family would like to thank everyone for their support and kindness. Your telephone calls and cards were greatly appreciated and have helped us in our grief. Also a special thank you to Dr. Mary Madden of Ft. Lauderdale and the hospice nurses who attended constantly. A native of Galway, Chris went to the US after finishing medical school at NUIG. After completing his residency in psychiatry in Chicago he moved to Fort Lauderdale where he practiced until a few weeks before his death of cancer. He was the son of Patrick Joseph (Sonny) Mahon and Eileen Fox-Mahon of Mary Street and the grandson of James and Hannah Mahon of Mahon's Hotel, Forster Street and Thomas and Margaret Fox-Killalea of Caherlea, Claregalway and Killalea's Pub, Flood Street. One of six children, four of whom were physicians, he once quipped that he was the product of genetic predestination. In fact such humor, not to mention his keen intelligence and alert scientific curiosity sustained him throughout his arduous career. He was pre-deceased by his brother Tom of Springfield, Illinois. Also by his long term partner Read Johnson, whose tragic death in 2008 he found devastating. He is survived by his brother Jim J. Mahon of London, his brother Paul F. Mahon MD of Springfield Illinois, his brother Eugene J. Mahon MD of New York, his sister Maeve M. Mahon-Ferriter MD of Ireland, his sisters-in-law Margaret Mahon of London, Sharon Mahon of Springfield and Delia Battin-Mahon of New York, his brother-in-law Patrick J. Ferriter of Ireland, his nephews Sean Mahon, Jason Mahon, Dominic Mahon, Eugene R. Mahon, and John P. Mahon and his nieces Rosalind Mahon and Emer Svoboda. He is deeply missed by his family and friends and by his patients to whom he dedicated all his professional life. Chris's erudition since childhood was prodigious; his depth of reading was phenomenal; his intellectual acuity remained razor sharp until the end. Through living a day at a time the Science of Mind had come to have great intellectual appeal to him as he tried to integrate the mysteries of the human condition into one unifying philosophy and in that spirit a secular prayer to guide him on his further after life odysseys is in order. "May the roads of eternity
rise to meet him
and may the winds of time
be always at his back."