William Robert Hogan Jr., Fidelity Chief, Dead At 75
Times Picayune  03-6-1996

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William Robert Hogan Jr., president of Fidelity Homestead Association, died
Monday at Touro Infirmary. He was 75.

Mr. Hogan was born in New Orleans and attended St. Aloysius High School, where
he was editor of the school newspaper and president of the New Orleans High
School Sodality Council. He won a Blue Key scholarship to Loyola University,
where he was senior class president, on the staff of the campus newspaper, The
Maroon, and the founder of Pi Kappa Epsilon commerce fraternity.

After graduating from Loyola in 1941, he spent four years in the Navy during
World War II, including two years in the Southwest Pacific. He left the
service as a lieutenant senior grade.

Mr. Hogan was certified as a public accountant in 1948 and started his
practice as a CPA in 1955. In 1963, he helped form the partnership of
Duplantier, Hrapmann, Hogan and Maher, from which he retired in 1984, the same
year he became president and chief executive officer of Fidelity Homestead.

Mr. Hogan was a member of the American Institute of Certified Public
Accountants, International House, the Plimsoll Club, the Third District
Kiwanis Club, the Archdiocese Finance Committee and the boards of directors of
the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, the Little Sisters of the Poor Mary Joseph
Residence for the Elderly and the Lakeshore Property Owners Association.

He was a past president of the St. Aloysius and Loyola alumni associations and
received the Sen. Allen J. Ellender Memorial Alumnus of the Year Award from
Brother Martin High School in 1988.

Survivors include a son, William R. "Bobby" Hogan III; a stepson, Larry F.
Cook; two stepdaughters, Kerry C. Mitchell and Kathleen C. Wambsgans; two
sisters, Anna Mae Duplantier and Janice Demarest; and eight stepgrandchildren.

A funeral will be held Thursday at 10:30 a.m. at Jacob Schoen & Son Funeral
Home, 3827 Canal St., followed by a Mass at St. Pius X Catholic Church, 6666
Spanish Fort Blvd. Visitation will be today from 6 to 9 p.m. and Thursday from
9 to 10:30 a.m. at the funeral home. Burial will be in Lake Lawn Mausoleum.