Motorcyclist killed in crash

Loved ones hold candlelight vigil

Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2008

Click here to enlarge this photo Staff photo by DARWIN WEIGEL Family and friends set up a roadside memorial for Larry G. Hogan II of Port Republic, who died in a motorcycle crash Friday afternoon on Broomes Island Road. E-Mail This Article | Print This Story Click here to enlarge this photo Staff photo by GRETCHEN PHILLIPS Family members and friends held a candlelight vigil at the site of the crash that killed Larry Hogan II. Kyle Dalrymple., 10, right, helps light candles at the vigil. Click here to enlarge this photo Submitted photo Larry Hogan II and his wife, Rhonda, pose for a picture.

Larry Gordon Hogan II was thrown from his 2001 Harley-Davidson Heritage Classic Softail when he struck a 1998 Chevrolet Camaro driven by Sarah Elizabeth Brown, 58, also of Port Republic. Brown was making a left turn onto Broomes Island Road and failed to yield to the motorcycle as the motorcycle hit the right quarter panel of Brown’s vehicle at 12:15 p.m., the press release said. Police and EMS personnel arrived on the scene within minutes of the crash and found Hogan critically injured in the roadway, according to the release. He was transported by ambulance to Calvert Memorial Hospital and pronounced dead.

Traffic was blocked a little more than two hours while officers conducted an investigation, and the Maryland State Highway Administration helped reroute the highway, the release said.

Brown did not sustain any significant injuries, according to the release.

No charges have been filed against Brown, said Lt. Homer Rich of Maryland State Police, but he said she will likely face some charges.

‘‘Based on my discussions with investigators on the case, that would be my assumption,” Rich said. The crash investigation is ongoing and is being conducted by Trooper D. Saucerman, according to the release.

Hogan, who has been riding motorcycles since he was 16 years old, was an active bowler at Lord Calvert Bowl in Huntingtown and ran Southern Maryland Electric Cooperative’s Bowl-a-thon, his son, Larry G. Hogan III, said. Every Wednesday he bowled with his team, ‘‘Hogan’s Heroes,” Hogan III said.

‘‘He was a great father and a great man to everyone,” Hogan III said. Hogan, married to Rhonda Hogan for 22 years, worked for SMECO and was a self-employed master electrician for Hogan’s Electric, Hogan III said.

The deceased and his wife raised three children in Calvert County; Larry III, who just graduated from a college in Towson, 20-year-old Brittany, who plans on getting married next year and 17-year-old Joseph, who will be starting college in the fall, Hogan III said.

‘‘He raised his family well,” Hogan III said.

A candlelight vigil was held for Hogan on Monday night at the scene of the crash. Family and friends shared memories, prayed and had a moment of silence with the exception of a running motorcycle in his honor.

‘‘He would do anything for anybody,” said Hogan’s brother-in-law Nikko Stergiou.

Hogan’s youngest son Joseph said his father was a great guy who loved attending his children’s activities.

‘‘He’s the best uncle anybody could have,” said Hogan’s niece Nicole Fink. ‘‘He took me to my first baseball game and watched me the entire time on his motorcycle,” she said.

Visitation will be at 10 a.m. and services will be held at noon today, Aug. 6, at Lee Funeral Home in Owings. A 1:30 p.m. reception will be held at the Dunkirk Volunteer Fire Department, Hogan III said. For several years Hogan II was a volunteer firefighter for Dunkirk Volunteer Fire Department, his son said.