Florence Hogan, 91

Florence Clara Hogan died in her sleep at her Amagansett house on Saturday evening. According to a nephew, Len Bernard of East Hampton, she had had respiratory illnesses recently and died of organ failure. She was 91. 

Born on Jan. 5, 1927, in Queens to Leonard Matthew Bernard and the former Clara Burger, Ms. Hogan grew up in Richmond Hill. After graduating from high school, she became a bookkeeper at Jamaica Hospital. 

She and her husband, Joseph Hogan, were married in the mid-1950s. In 1959, they bought a lot on Miankoma Lane and built a house there the following year. It was a summer residence for many years, but in 1972 after they both retired, it became their full-time home. They became part of the community, with Mr. Hogan joining the Fire Department and Ms. Hogan becoming a member of its ladies auxiliary. They both were active in the East Hampton Republican Club during the 1970s.

“She was an active woman,” her nephew said yesterday. After retiring from her city job, she went to work as a clerk at the Suffolk County Off Track Betting branch in Southampton, where she worked until the late 1980s. She was a member of Most Holy Trinity Catholic Church and received communion right up to her final days. 

Ms. Hogan and her husband enjoyed entertaining guests. “They were very sociable,” Mr. Bernard said.

She loved reading and watching movies and would help her husband, who had a passion for collecting. “She was a good lady, liked by all,” Mr. Bernard said.

Her husband died before her, as did a sister, Margaret Bernard, and a brother, Len Bernard Sr. She is survived by another sister, Madeline Frank of Elmont, her nephew, and four nieces. 

A funeral Mass will be said at 10:30 a.m. tomorrow at Most Holy Trinity Church, with burial to follow at Calverton National Cemetery. The family has suggested memorial donations to East End Hospice, P.O. Box 1048, Westhampton Beach 11978.