1 Photo
Kathleen McNulty Hogerton, a year-round resident of Quogue since 1973, died July 4, 2018.
Born on February 15, 1922 in Brooklyn, Ms. Hogerton was raised in Garden City. Her parents rented a house for several summers in Quogue to be near her father’s sister and brother-in-law, Margaret and James Kennedy, who had a home on the ocean in Quogue. She visited Quogue the day after the 1938 Hurricane to help her mother and aunt. She graduated from the Cathedral School of St. Mary in Garden City in 1939 and graduated from Smith College in 1943.
Ms. Hogerton worked as a public relations assistant at William Morrow & Company and then joined the United States Naval Reserve, better known as the WAVES for Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service (WAVES) in 1944. She was honorably discharged in 1946 and then worked at the United Nations Headquarters Planning Office in New York City.
In 1948 she married John Felder Hogerton, also of Garden City, who graduated from Yale in 1941 with a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering. Mr. Hogerton worked on the Manhattan Project during World War II. She accompanied him to the first Atoms for Peace Conference in Geneva, Switzerland, in 1955.
Ms. Hogerton’s father, Raymond Peter McNulty, was a partner of Corner, Bell, Russell & McNulty in Brooklyn. He worked closely with Robert Moses, his former roommate at Yale as the counsel to the Long Island State Park Commission from its establishment in 1924, until his death in 1946. Her grandfather Peter Henry McNulty was a state senator representing Brooklyn. He brought his family to Good Ground in Hampton Bays during the summer.
Survivors said Ms. Hogerton was a devoted wife and mother who loved gardening, playing bridge, and caring for beagles.
She is survived by her daughter, Kate Hogerton; as well as nieces and nephews.
on Jul 25, 2018