During a teaching and extension career that spanned nearly 40 years, Tony Koski, Ph.D., had dozens of projects reviewed by peers and published. His last project, however, did not require validation from his contemporaries.
Koski, a professor and turfgrass extension specialist at Colorado State University for 37 years, died July 12 after a battle with pancreatic cancer. One of Koski’s final acts before he died was to pen his own obituary.
“He embraced each day with optimism, gratitude, and grace until the very end,” Roch Gaussoin, Ph.D., professor emeritus at the University of Nebraska, said on Facebook. “Every card, email, text message, and hug kept him going. He believed in miracles to the end.”…