Rev. Hugh T. Brogan

R ev. Hugh T. Brogan, retired naval captain, passed away Thursday, June 22, 2006, after a long illness. He was born in Nanticoke on March 5, 1932. He was the son of the late James A. Sr. and Regina (Shea) Brogan.
He was a graduate of St. Charles Grade School, Sugar Notch, and he graduated as valedictorian from Hanover High School. He went on to graduate from St. Bonaventure University with degrees in philosophy and theology. He was ordained a priest on May 28, 1960, at St. Matthew’s Cathedral, Washington D.C. He continued his campus ministry at Marymount University and then continued with graduate studies in theology at Catholic University and psychology at Freiburg University, Germany.
His clinical pastoral education took place at Loma Linda University, marriage counseling at Denver University and a senior chaplain course at the Naval Schools Command, Newport, Va.
He served as a chaplain for 25 years of service, from June 1969 to April 1994, with the U.S. Marine Corps, the U.S. Coast Guard and the U.S. Navy, where he obtained the rank of captain. He also was a 30-year volunteer with mission services, serving the Reno Diocese in Nevada and its outlying missions. During his later years he spent eight years of retreat work at Sisters Communities and 10 years of Volunteer Ministry with the Marion Convent, at Marywood University, Scranton. He also participated locally in liturgies, parish missions, senior days of reflection, order education and summer school for children. He was a member of the American Legion Post 796, Sugar Notch. He served as chaplain of the Catholic War Veterans, Post 274, Ashley/Hanover Township.
He was preceded in death by a brother, James A. Brogan Jr.
Surviving are sisters Grayce DeLea, Huntington, Long Island, N.Y.; Regina Fillman, Sugar Notch; Patricia Sincavage, South Plainfield, N.J.; brothers Edward K. and Jerome B. Brogan, both at home; numerous nieces and nephews; and grandnieces and grandnephews.
A Mass of Christian Burial will be held today at 1 p.m. in St. Charles Church, Main Street, Sugar Notch, with the Rev. Paul Mullen officiating. Interment will follow in St. Mary’s Cemetery, Hanover Township. Family and friends may call today at the church from 9 a.m. until the time of service at 1 p.m.
In lieu of flowers donations can be made in his memory to a charity of the donor’s choice. Arrangements are by the George A. Strish Inc. Funeral Home, 105 N. Main St., Ashley.