Joseph Francis Hagan

A Funeral Liturgy for Joseph Francis Hagan, of St. Michaels, MD, formerly of Kensington, MD, will be celebrated at St. Michaels Catholic Chapel, St. Michaels, MD. on Wednesday, December 20th, at 11 A. M. Mr. Hagan died at the Holy Cross Hospital, Silver Spring, MD on Saturday, December 16, 2000. He was 78. Born in Baltimore, MD, March 27, 1922, he was the son of the late Joseph D. P. and Mary Hopf Hagan. After graduating from Patterson Park High School in Baltimore in 1940, he entered the University of Maryland that year. In 1943, he entered the U. S. Army and served with the 542nd QM Depot Co (Supply) and with the Armed Forces Radio Service, gaining the rank of Captain. After the war, he continued to serve in the Active Reserves in the 310 Logistical Command and the Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Logistics, retiring in 1963 with the rank of Lt. Colonel. In 1952, he founded the Hagan Insurance Agency which operated primarily from Rockville, MD and is still in being although with different ownership. In 1989, he moved from Kensington, MD to St. Michaels MD. A member of the St. Michaels Catholic Chapel in St. Michaels, he was also a member of the Regina Coeli Council of the Knights of Columbus, The Miles River Yacht Club, the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, the Reserve Officers Association of the United States and had been active in the Civitan Club of Rockville. Professionally, he was a member of several trade associations, including the MD Chapter of the Independent Insurance Agents of which he was a past president. Mr. Hagan is survived by his wife, the former Josephine Marie Dollinger whom he married in Baltimore, MD on April 30, 1949; a daughter, Maureen H. Callahan and her husband, Jay, of Silver Spring; three sons, Dr. Joseph F. Hagan, Jr. and his wife, Joyce, of Burlington, VT, Dr. Gregory N. Hagan and his wife, Leslie, of Somerville, MA and Sean D. Hagan and his wife, Nina, of Silver Spring; a sister, Rose Ellen H. Clarke of Baltimore, MD and 10 grandchildren. Burial will be at Old St. Joseph''s Catholic Cemetery, Cordova, MD. Friends may call at the Fellows, Helfenbein and Newnam Funeral Home, Easton, MD. on Tuesday, December 19th, from 2 - 4 and 7 - 9 P.M. A recitation of the Rosary will be held at 3:30 P.M. Tuesday at the funeral home.