Dwain F. Hogan

Dwain (Bud) arrived in Washington with his family in 1929. His dad, Frank Hogan, a Border Patrol agent, had taken a transfer from the cold country of Roseau, Minn. to the temperate climate of Lynden. That was when he became Bud. Teased in Minnesota because there was girl by the same name, he answered, "Bud" when the sand lot baseball players asked his name. His Mother, Hazel and two brothers, Jim and Bob completed the family group.

Bud roller skated at Birch Bay, played Saxophone in the Band, pitched hay in the summers, worked in a butcher shop and fell in love with motorcycles. After graduating from Blaine High School, he spent a year at Western Washington College earned his Engineering Degree from St. Martin's in Olympia and his Masters in Ceramic Engineering from the University of Washington. That's where he met his future wife, Patricia (Pat) Fortin.

During the Korean War he spent 2 years with the Army at the Aberdeen Proving Grounds in Baltimore, MD.

After the war, Bud got a job with the Army Corps of Engineers in Seattle. He bought a house, built a boat, bought a motorcycle then decided it was time to call up Pat. They were married in 1959. They were happily married 56 years and raised two sons, Patrick and Michael.

Bud spent 34 years with the Corps. He started with designing small boat basins: Bellingham Squalicum , Anacortes, Quillayote, Shilshole, Port Townsend, Westport, Kingston, Edmonds, etc. After the Big Alaska Quake, he was assigned to "restore" the basins that had been damaged. He became Chief of the Seattle District Hydraulic section. The hydraulics of Libby and Wynoochee dams were completed under his lead. In 1976, he became Chief of Planning Division. When Bud retired in 1991, he was Assistant Chief of Engineering.

As a Northwest family, the Hogans backpacked, fished, waterskied, dug clams and boated. If Bud wasn't with them, he was motorcycling with brother, Jim. They would take long extended motorcycle road trips or take part in local competition events. Bud won the "'Oldest Rookie" to ride the Colorado 500 award. He spent many hours in the garage, with the boys and their friends teaching them mechanics, maintenance and care of tools.

After retirement Pat and Bud loaded up a motorhome with golf clubs, and a motorcycle and headed for Arizona site seeing. After 16 years of that, the snow birds picked a retirement village to call home for 6 months a year. There they took up billiards as the sport of choice.

Bud died suddenly of heart disease and is survived by his wife Pat, sons Patrick, (his wife Laura and their twins, Eloise and Thorben), Michael, (his wife Tammie and daughter Allison). Also surviving are brothers Bob and Jim, Jim's wife Laura and his children Lynne and Steven.