Patrick Francis Bogan

Patrick Bogan was born on February 23, 1942, in Youngstown, Ohio. He died peacefully surrounded by his family on December 20, 2018. Pat joined the U. S. military following high school and became a Navy/Marine Corpsman. After the military, he enrolled and graduated from the University of Maryland eventually earning a master’s degree in business. He joined Friends Research Institute, Baltimore, MD., as a counselor in 1968, and in 1972 became Director of the firm’s Epoch House. He later rose to the position of president and CEO of Friends in 1989. After retiring from that position he began a 10-year career in real estate where he earned his GRI designation. He was a member of the National Association of Realtors and a member of the Executive Committee of the Mid-Shore Board of Realtors. He also was Past Commodore of the Chesapeake Bay Yacht Club.

Mr. Bogan was a volunteer for numerous organizations in Talbot County including the Historical Society, The Society of St. Vincent de Paul, and the Waterfowl Festival.
He was a former board member of Pickering Creek Environmental Center, a Master Gardener and an avid hunter.

He is survived by his daughter, Heather McKinney (Rob) and stepson, Ryan Ellison (Angela); grandchildren, Alyssa, Evan and Lili McKinney; step-granddaughter, Piper Ellison; brothers, Tod (Fran, deceased), James, Lawrence (Beth), and Terry (Angela); and multiple nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by his parents, Anastasia (Coleman) and Tod Bogan and his brother Jerry (Judy.)

Private inurnment will occur in January, 2019, at Iowa Veterans Cemetery in Van Meter, Iowa. Memorial donations in Pat Bogan’s name may be made to any of the non-profit organizations he was involved with locally or Animal Lifeline of Iowa, Inc. P.O. Box 12, Carlisle, Iowa 50057. Online condolences may be expressed at www.HamiltonsFuneralHome.com.

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