We will miss you, Red!

(a.k.a. "Jack", "Pops", "Grandpa", "Grandfather",
"Grandpa Red" and "Handsome")

Irish Blessing

May the saddest day of your future
be no worse than the happiest day of your past.

To all Friends of John “Jack” Hogan, please click below for a message from the Hogan family.

Click on newspaper below to read,
"John W. "Red" Hogan:  Blue-collar historian left artistic legacy of city"

To see some of the artwork made with Red's matchbook collection by
Chicago Artist and close friend of the family, Tony Fitzpatrick, click below:

Please feel free to read what others have to say in
his guest book by clicking on the book below:

PLEASE FEEL FREE TO POST YOUR OWN MEMORIES OR COMMENTS WITH THE DATE AND YOUR NAME HERE:

"I'd call you two assholes, but they're useful."

~  Said by Red to his son Bird and friend Tony Fitzpatrick
when caught stealing his Pabst Blue Ribbon as young men.

"I wonder what the poor people are eating."

~  Said by Red while eating Round Steak

"Anybody who doesn't like this life is CRAZY."

~  Said by Red when driving all seven kids in the station
wagon on vacation

"At Ease"

~  Said by Red when things got a little crazy

 "All Aboard"

~  Said by Red at obvious times

"I am the holiest man on the block - I go to church twice on Sundays. 
Once to drop your mother off and once to pick her up."

~  Red's thoughts on Church

"Tell them where you got it."

~  Said by Red to son John at the end of visits together

When Dave asked Red for his daughter's hand in marriage,
Red replied, "Which one?"

May your troubles be less,
and your blessings be more,
and nothing but happiness
come through your door!

~  Irish Blessing

For everything there is a season,
And a time for every matter under heaven:
A time to be born, and a time to die;
A time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted;
A time to kill, and a time to heal;
A time to break down, and a time to build up;
A time to weep, and a time to laugh;
A time to mourn, and a time to dance;
A time to throw away stones, and a time to gather stones together;
A time to embrace, And a time to refrain from embracing;
A time to seek, and a time to lose;
A time to keep, and a time to throw away;
A time to tear, and a time to sew;
A time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
A time to love, and a time to hate,
A time for war, and a time for peace.

Ecclesiastes 3:1-8

And now the end is near
And so I face the final curtain,
My friends, I'll say it clear,
I'll state my case of which I'm certain.
I've lived a life that's full, I've traveled each and evr'y highway
And more, much more than this, I did it my way.

Paul Anka

I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Winston Churchill

Live life to the fullest.

Ernest Hemingway

“No one ever finds life worth living - one has to make it worth living”