Antiques dealer Catherine “Kay” Scott Kinsella Hogan died peacefully Friday, April 11, with her family by her side. She was born in Hartford, Conn., on January 22, 1921, the daughter of George F. Kinsella and Dorothea Mooney Kinsella. She was predeceased by her husband John K. Hogan, her son William Patrick Hogan, her daughter Dorothea Coles, and her sister Mary Ann Kinsella.
“Kay,” as she was so fondly called by her family and friends, attended local schools, graduating from Buckley High School and St Joseph’s College. She was a teacher at the old Southwest School, now the Eleanor B. Kennelly School, until her enlistment in the United States Marine Corps in 1943.
Following her commissioning as a second lieutenant, Kay remained on duty until the end of World War II. She also met and married her husband, Marine Captain John K. Hogan, at the base chapel in San Diego, Calif. Following her marriage and subsequent discharge from the Marine Corps, she accompanied her husband on his 24-year career in the Marine Corps.
Beginning at Yale University, they traveled extensively throughout the world with postings in London and Port Leyauty, French Morocco. Upon retirement, Kay’s only desire was to return to her native Connecticut, where they settled in East Hampton and later Middle Haddam.
Fascinated by antiques, she became an expert in early American furniture, coin silver and blue and white Staffordshire. She was a licensed dealer. She was a good friend of the late Betty Forbes and was an exhibitor in all her outdoor shows, as well as her Hartford, Wallingford and Stratford, Conn., shows.
Kay also exhibited with the late Betty Cole at the Windham, Conn., antiques show and she participated at the St James, West Hartford, antiques show. Until a few years ago, she was in a group shop in Old Saybrook, Conn.
Although totally absorbed with business and a large family, she found time to volunteer her services as a board member and past president of the Middle Haddam Historic District Commission.
Kay is survived by her sons John S. Hogan and Sean O. Hogan and their wives; her brothers Richard, James H., and George B. Kinsella and their wives; her grandchildren Shannon Hogan Galinson, Sarah Sheridan, and Scott, Ian, Kelly and Alysia Hogan. She also leaves three great grandchildren, McGuiness, O’Neil and Lakeland Galinson, and a host of nephews and nieces to mourn her loss.
Burial was at the Arlington National Cemetery on May 6.
