Catherine M. Hogan

Catherine “Katie” M. Hogan, formerly of Woodmont Village of Milford, CT and New Haven, CT, passed peacefully on November 26, 2023, two weeks after the passing of her husband of 61 years, John W. Hogan Jr.

Born on March 15, 1941 in Natick, MA, Katie was the child of Arthur Menadier and Mary Slamin Menadier and spent her childhood in Rye, NY. Katie attended Our Lady of the Resurrection High School in Rye, and went on to graduate from Albertus Magnus College in New Haven, Class of 1962. Katie was a talented and active student who sung at Carnegie Hall with her middle school chorus, loved figure skating, and was deeply involved in student government and debate club at college.

While a student at Albertus, she met her future husband and love of her life, John W. Hogan Jr. They were married in August of 1962 and they settled in New Haven to raise their growing young family.

Katie was a wonderfully creative mother of four children, who encouraged their involvement in the arts of all forms. She was an avid volunteer for the community and the schools, including her work with the New Haven Board of Education to ensure the public schools were working to be the best they could be. Katie then took her energy and skills to work outside the home in the insurance industry, spending many years first with Met Life in sales and later with Mass Mutual in IT sales operations. Katie’s passions included collecting, fixing and gifting antique furniture to her children, designing and making unique clothes for herself and her family, swimming laps in Long Island Sound, and gardening and organizing events as a longtime member of the New Haven Garden Club. Katie’s formal language and her relentless focus on grammar and proper etiquette belied a humorous, creative and spunky side that her family and friends loved and craved. Later in life, Katie found joy in travelling up and down the East Coast with John to visit her children and grandchildren, celebrating significant milestones and mundane daily events with the same enthusiasm.

Katie is survived by her sister Mary Cromwell of Parkville, MD and her husband Jenks. She is also survived by her four children; Joan Hogan Gillman and her husband Ted Gillman of Westport, CT; Stephanie Hogan Lee and her husband Michael Lee of Barrington, RI; John Peter Hogan of Washington, DC; and Tad Hogan and his wife Kate Brawley Hogan of Trappe, MD. Katie is also survived by seven (7) grandchildren, Allison and Zachary Gillman, Nicholas (Kate) and Bowen (Meghan) Lee, Garrett, Gwen and Gus Hogan, and one great grandchild, John (Jack) Lee. She was predeceased by her husband, her brothers Michael Menadier, Chris Menadier, and Theodore Menadier and her sisters Anne Bartholomew and Elizabeth Farnham.

In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the Nativity School of Worcester (nativityworcester.org) in her name.

Funeral Services for both Katie and John will be held at St. Mary Catholic Church, 5 Hillhouse Avenue, New Haven, CT on Friday, December 1 at 10:00 am with their burials at Grove Street Cemetery to follow.