Dr. Stephen C. Textor, 75, passed away at home surrounded by his wife and family on Wednesday, February 28, 2024, in North Central Florida near Ocala. He was born on June 3, 1948, in Denver, Colorado, to Dr. Jerome Textor, M.D. and Margaret Sias. He lived in Colorado until age 10 and then moved to Minnesota where his father practiced medicine. Stephen grew up in Anoka, Minnesota, where he played hockey and won a high school football state championship as an offensive guard. After high school he moved to the west coast, where he graduated from Stanford University in 1969 and from the University of California, Los Angeles School of Medicine in 1973. The day before graduating medical school, Stephen earned his pilot’s license. He fondly described aviation as his favorite hobby, observing that he had been a pilot longer than he had been a doctor. He operated and maintained a 1973 Beechcraft V35B Bonanza with friends in Minnesota for more than 30 years, flying over 2,600 hours as pilot-in-command. Stephen is remembered for his passion for learning, trying new things, and being physically active, all of which led him to many adventures: in 1977, for instance, he was recognized as a finalist for the NASA Mission Specialist program. Stephen moved to Boston, Massachusetts in 1973, for five years of training following his graduation from medical school. He completed his internship and residency in internal medicine at Boston City Hospital, and then his clinical fellowships in hypertension and nephrology at Boston University. There, he met his wife, Susan L. Bertram, R.N., M.S.N., a nurse on the university hospital surgical unit that provided care for transplant patients. They married on January 6, 1979, and shortly thereafter their travels took them abroad. Stephen was a Fellow of the Swiss National Science Postdoctoral Foundation, and from 1979 to 1980, they lived in Lausanne, Switzerland. After returning to the U.S., they lived in Cleveland, Ohio, for four years while Stephen worked at Cleveland Clinic, then in 1984 they moved to Claremont, California, where Stephen worked as an internist at City of Hope Hospital. They moved to Rochester, Minnesota, in 1988, where they lived until 2021, throughout Stephen’s 33-year career with the Mayo Clinic.