LOWELL

James D. Hogan died on St Patrick's Day '21 of natural causes at the age of 95 with his children Millicent and Ned by his side as well as the heroic staff. Because of COVID, we will be holding private services and burial. In lieu of flowers, we would ask that you get a cheerful blossom for yourselves and donate to your own charity.

Dad was predeceased by Mom, Millicent C Hogan, and by his sisters, Mary, Rita, Anne, and brother John. He is survived by his children, Millicent, Jim "Honey", John "Ned", Cynthia, grandchildren Ren and Millicent Whitely, Annika, Jonas, and Lukas Hogan, Audrey, and Philip Platt. First cousin Dympna and her family near Ennis, Ireland. Along with daughter and son-in-law Dr. Regina Kursten-Hogan and Meserve Platt. Deep and abiding longtime friends from Lowell, MA, Larchmont, NY, Rye, NH, and Ft. Lauderdale, FL. His final residency was at the Beaumont Rehabilitation where they dubbed him the 'Governor of Beaumont'.

Born to Irish immigrants, Jack and Delia O'Brien Hogan, on 15 June 1925. His mother died early in his life. At which point the true Irish family pulled together as one and survived the depression and WWll. Dad went to St Peter's School, Lowell High School, and graduated with a finance degree from Boston College in 1948. After he borrowed $200 from his father for tuition at BC. He ushered at Tanglewood soaking up the music, served at tables at The Mount Washington Hotel in the White Mountains of NH. and the Bretton Woods World Finance Conference. He had a deep love of opera, Broadway, symphonic, and all things musical. He lavished these gifts on willing participants from venerable European halls to the Public Theater and The West Beth Theater. His career posts were at General Electric, Shea Chemical, Occidental Petroleum with Armand Hammer, Interore and Greg Gary with Ara Ostamel. He and Mom started their own medical supply company, Physicians & Nurses in 1972. Needless to say, great stories from the people they met and places they visited. They loved to travel and made good on their bucked list after they sold P&N in 1995.

Jim and Millicent met through a Newman Club mixer while she was at Wellesley and him at BC. Later her mother caught him dancing with his sister Anne at a Lowell Auditorium Tea Dance on Sunday. Grammy got to work getting the twinkle towed couple together. They were married at The Church of the Immaculate Conception, Lowell, MA 24 April 1953 and celebrated at Vesper County Club in Tewksbury, Ma. They were devoted Catholics interested in the work done by St. Vincent's Hospital and Rehab, the orphanage hospital and Basilica of the Holy Sepulchre as Lady and Knight and members of Larchmont's St Augustine's, Portsmouth NH's St James and Ft. Lauderdale FL's St John the Baptist parishes. We would say he and Mom considered Larchmont, NY home in many ways for its beauty, fun, and social activities. Larchmont held easy access to NYC however there were frequent trips up Rye, New Hampshire.

We are most grateful for his full life and powerful examples of living with music, art, theater, joyfulness, and inclusiveness. We will miss him but are thrilled that he is free to be with Mom, his parents, siblings, in-laws, and many friends who have made a place for him in paradise. Dad leaves behind years of wonderful stories that were created and now passed to his next generations.

St Patrick gathered him to safety and peacefulness. "Ar dheis De' go raibha anem,"

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Published by Lowell Sun on Mar. 28, 2021.