Patricia Anne Hogan

Patricia Anne Hogan passed away on July 4 ^th , 2018 at Elizabeth Evarts de Rham Hospice in Cambridge MA due to complications from chronic lymphocytic leukemia.  She was surrounded by her friends and family.

Born in 1937 in Boston MA and growing up in Melrose MA, ‘Trish’ surmounted all challenges while living a very full and overflowing life as happy and content ‘single lady’.  In her twenties, she traveled extensively in Europe and Nigeria then settled down to work for educational institutions and the corporate sector for forty-two years.

Later, she reinvented herself by marketing software for petroleum engineers and creating forecasting services for financial and corporate institutions.  She fought gender and age discrimination her entire career.

Trish did not slowdown when she retired at the age of 62.  Her love of books and poetry led her to Harvard where she studied the literature of Faulkner and Yeats, as well as the poetry of Yeats, Graham, Heaney and Ashbury.  She was also an active member of the Cambridge Cohousing community where she called home since 1998.

A member of the Religious Society of Friends, she called the Friends Meeting at Cambridge her spiritual home for nearly 50 years.  She was also a very active member of Alcoholics Anonymous for 42 years.  Her religious/spiritual life is grounded in the faith of her Quaker friends, AA, and Catholicism.

Patricia leaves nine nieces and nephews: John M. Hogan III, Stephen Johnson, Paul Johnson, Kristen Johnson, Billy Knights, John F. Knights, Jimmy Knights, Scott Knights, and Gale Knights.  She is survived by her brother John M. Hogan Jr. and sisters Gale Knight and Maura Johnson.

Burial will take place July 9 ^th at Bridge Street Cemetery in West Newbury at 10 A.M..  A ‘Celebration of Life’ service is planned for Sunday, August 12th at 2 P.M. at Friends Meeting in Cambridge, 5 Longfellow Park.