Charles Michael Dugan, Jr., 95, of Allentown, passed away on Thursday, July 13, 2023 in Phoebe Home. He was the husband of the late Gloria Lorraine (Ottens) Dugan, who died in 2019.

Born in Allentown, he was a son of the late Charles M. Dugan, Sr. and Clare A. (Cannon) Dugan. Chuck was a 1945 graduate of Allentown Central Catholic High School and received a BS in Business Management from Lehigh University. He served his country honorably in the U.S. Army Air Corps during WWII and was stationed in occupied Japan. Charles was a 2nd generation owner of Dugan's Furniture Store on 8th Street in Allentown, until he retired in 2007.

Chuck was an active volunteer for Meals on Wheels, delivering until he was 92 years old. He enjoyed playing piano and participated in Ping-Pong at Lehigh Valley Active Life. Chuck was an avid rose gardener, was a ski and tennis enthusiast, treasured beach trips to Ocean City, NJ and loved blueberry pancakes.

Survivors: Daughters, Lisa Dugan and her significant other Ned Sanyour of Moorestown, NJ and Patricia M. Dugan-Henriksen and her husband Jon of Lancaster, NH; 2 grandchildren, Gopi and Keshi. Charles was preceded in death by a sister Clare Polanki.

Services: A Mass of Christian Burial will be held at 11 AM on Friday, July 21, 2023 at St. Paul's R.C. Church, 920 S. 2nd Street, Allentown. A visitation for relatives and friends will be held from 10 AM until the time of the service. Interment will follow at Holy Saviour Cemetery, Bethlehem. Arrangements are entrusted to the K.V. Knopp Funeral Home, Inc., Allentown. Please wear something colorful in memory of Chuck.

Contributions: In lieu of flowers, may be made to Lehigh Valley Hospice, 2024 Lehigh Street, Suite 100, Allentown, PA 18103.

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Published by Morning Call on Jul. 16, 2023.

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Terri L. Polster Conlin

July 18, 2023

To the Dugan Family, we were very sorry to learn of your fathers passing. He was one of the last original
Owners on Benton Street. He would stop and talk with my parents on his nightly walks. He was a kind, and friendly man who lived a long wonderful life. Thinking of you during your time of sorrow.
Shirley Polster and family.

Sheila McKeone P

July 17, 2023

Dear Uncle Chuck, thank you for decades of gentle, fun encouragement and challenges to so many of us who were blessed to have a family connection. (Including many in-laws from multiple generations.) My family always admired your patience with everyone from my grandmother-how many times were those walls repainted?; to your pogo stick challenges to your 3 older brother-in-laws and all the Ottens nieces and nephews; to your many chats with my Dad after Mom passed; to being a link between our Mom (as a sister-in-law) and my Dad (as sharing a great aunt Cannon); to welcoming my husband with ping pong, tennis, piano and historical information challenges (who else would take a business school professor from Ga Tech on an auto tour of Bethlehem Steel? and also know the Civil War legacy of the namesake for a residential street in Atlanta?); to babysitting and charming a then 4 yr old great niece at Mack pool; always laughing at retold Readers Digest and AARP type jokes for my sister; and a readied smile of determination and strength to show me and my siblings how to always find delight in something new to go forward with while holding on to that inner child.

Yes thank you for your service to this country in WWII, and since then. And imagining those Super Bowl game penny ante bets, and loser pranks starting again soon in heaven. But you were truly one of the socalled greatest generation and a keeper of the keys in the family, and that will be so missed.

Love to Patti, Jay, Gopi, Keshi, Lisa and Ned from Sheila, Chuck P., Katrina and Christopher

Tim Briody

July 17, 2023

Condolences to the Dugan family on the loss of your father. He was a wonderful and kind man.

Allan Ottens

July 16, 2023

Allan Ottens

July 16, 2023

Enjoy being reunited with Aunt Gloria.

Allan and Mary Ottens

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Helen Mckeone

July 16, 2023

Charles Dugan was kind and compassionate Uncle. He was also
generous.He was a good piano player. He kept playing the piano
late in life. He was good gardener and a faithful Catholic.

Robert J. Miklas, AT2AC, USN, 1963-1967.

July 16, 2023

"A soldier has passed away today." You have made your final march down the lonely dusty trail. You are now relieved from your post. A job well done fellow veteran. America thanks you for your service to our country in the defense of freedom. We all are grateful for your stepping up to the plate when your country needed you the most. The final bugle has sounded and taps is about to sound ending a successful career as a nation´s defender. Farewell fellow veteran. A Navy Vietnam Veteran.

Grateful

July 15, 2023

Sir,
Thank You for Your service to our country.

God Bless You!
God be with your family!

Sincerely,
A Grateful American

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