- Date Of Birth: March 23, 1914
- Date Of Death: August 11, 2010
- State: Montana
Robert P. Hogan, 96, passed away on Wednesday, August 11, 2010 at the Montana Veterans Home in Columbia Falls, Montana.
Robert was a native of Iowa where he had been in newspaper and public relations work for many years. In 1980 he and his wife, Helen, retired and moved to Kingston, WA. In 1992 they moved to Buffalo Hill Terrace, a retirement community in Kalispell. Helen passed away in 2005 and Bob moved to the Montana Veterans Home.
Bob was born in Anamosa, Iowa on March 23, 1914 to Dr. and Mrs. M.F. Hogan. The family moved to Monticello, Iowa in 1915 where his father practiced dentistry and was Postmaster. Bob was a graduate of Sacred Heart School, Monticello; attended Lenox Junior College, Hopkinton, Iowa and graduated from the University of Iowa in 1938.
Bob held reporting and editing assignments on the Daily Iowan and the Press-Citizen in Iowa City; the Cedar Rapids Gazette; and was news director and political reporter for the Iowa Daily Press Association in Des Moines. During the latter period he covered state politics for 39 daily papers in Iowa, including three national political conventions.
Bob and his wife, the former Helen Dankel of Seattle, were married in Cedar Rapids on May 8, 1946. They met at the Sandpoint U.S. Naval Air Station in Seattle, when her returned from duty in the South Pacific. Bob enlisted in the Navy and retired as a Navy Lieutenant. Helen was a civilian employee of the Naval Air Station throughout WWII.
Bob is preceded in death by his wife, his parents and three sisters, Jean, Kathleen and Rose Ann. He is survived by his sons; Mark S. Hogan and wife Jeanne and their children, Stephanie and Geoffrey of Kalispell; Kenneth R. Hogan and wife Lynn and their son Jake and his wife Keri of Boulder, CO; and several nieces and nephews.
