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William Hubert Duggan Jr. died on January 6 at Southampton Hospital, surrounded by family. He was 76.
Mr. Duggan attended the Saint Mary’s High School in Manhasset, graduating in 1955. He studied economics at Dartmouth College and after graduating in 1959, he spent the next two years in the United States Navy on the USS Massey, traveling the globe as a lieutenant junior grade. Mr. Duggan then went to Fordham University Law School and received his juris doctorate in 1964 and started working for Shearman & Sterling in New York City. He married Kathryn Ruffer Gilmartin on August 14, 1965, in Southampton.
In 1969, he and his family moved to Southampton, returning to his wife’s hometown where he briefly joined Gilmartin & Gilmartin law firm. In 1971, he became a partner with Clifford Edwards in East Hampton. Edwards & Duggan represented East End companies and individuals in real estate, corporate, and trust and estate matters. In 2005, Edwards & Duggan merged with Farrell Fritz.
Mr. Duggan served on the board of directors for Southampton Hospital for 12 years, serving as secretary, Pension and Personnel Practices Committee chairman, Executive Committee member, Governance and Nominating Committee member, and Facilities and Properties Committee member. In addition, he was a founding member of the Board of Directors of the Peconic Health Corporation for four years, serving as a Finance Committee and By-Laws Committee member. He was also on the Board of Directors of Guild Hall for six years. He was a member of the East Hampton Rotary for more than 35 years, where he served as president and secretary, and was honored as a Paul Harris Fellow. In 2015, he celebrated more than 50 years with the Suffolk County Bar Association. He was also on the board of Nyack Boys School in Southampton for two years.
Survivors said Mr. Duggan enjoyed spending time with his wife of almost 50 years, his two children, and twin grandchildren. In his free time, he loved to golf, read and travel the world.
The son of William Hubert and Ruth Slevin Duggan, he was born in Jamaica, New York, on April 29, 1938. He was predeceased by his wife, Kathryn Duggan, in March 2015; and a sister, Alexandra Loyola Duggan, in 2005. He is survived by a daughter, Ann G. Duggan, son William H. Duggan III and partner Frances Orabona; and grandchildren, Meredith and William; brothers, Robert Duggan and partner Cheryl Carley of Massachusetts and David Duggan and wife Michele Katz of Bedford; and 24 nieces and nephews.
Memorial donations may be made to the Southampton Hospital Foundation, 240 Meeting House Lane, Southampton, NY 11968; or Sacred Heart Ministry Fund or the In Nomine Domini Fund at the Basilica Parish of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary, 168 Hill Street, Southampton, NY 11968.
Funeral arrangements were under the direction of the O’Connell Funeral Home in Southampton.
on Jan 11, 2016