Giles Hogan, founder of Hogan's Corner, dead at 86
HOGAN'S CORNER -- Giles John Hogan, 86, a land developer and lumberman for half a century, died Saturday at his home in the development he founded near Ocean Shores -- Hogan's Corner.
Born Feb. 26, 1901, at Superior, Wis., to Patrick R. Hogan and Etta M. Nauman, he came to Aberdeen with his family in 1903.
Hogan attended Aberdeen schools and began working in the mills. He was associated with his father in logging, lumber and shingle operations from Port Townsend to central Oregon.
The Hogans managed land developments in western Grays Harbor, including cranberry land in the North Bay area. In 1930 he began to log pulp wood and continued to oversee logging operations into his 80s.
He married Frances Maginnis in 1925 in Elma. She died in 1978.
Hogan lived in Aberdeen until the late 1930s when he moved to Burrows Road west of Hoquiam.
He founded Hogan's Corner in 1962 and had participated in development with his son, (private), right up until his death. Hogan had moved to the community that bears his name in the 1970s.
He was a member of St. Jerome's Catholic Church at Hogan's Corner, having donated the land for the church, and a life-member of the Aberdeen Elks Lodge.
He is survived by his son, (private); a sister, Jeannette Altman, of Newport News, Va.; three granddaughters, (private); and numerous nieces and nephews.
A Mass of Christian Burial will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday at St. Mary's Catholic Church in Aberdeen.
Additional information will be announced by the Whiteside Memorial Chapel in Tuesday's classified ad funeral notice section.
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