Granger E. Westberg

Westberg, born in Chicago in 1913, received his bachelor's from Augustana College in 1935, and later graduated from Augustana Theological Seminary . He served a short time as a parish pastor then became a full time chaplain at Augustana Hospital in Chicago . After that his writing and career focused on a team approach to health care .

In 1951 Westberg became Chaplain of the University of Chicago Clinics. In 1956 he started a joint appointment in both the Chicago Divinity School and the school of medicine at the University of Chicago.

In 1962 Westberg's interest in the grief process resulted in his writing Good Grief which enjoyed popular success.

Later in 1964 he became Dean of institute of Religion at Texas Med Center in Houston providing a

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