Claude Neil Hogsett

Bridgeport lost Claude Neil Hogsett on September 24, 2024. He was 73. Born in Bridgeport on July 18, 1951, into a Norwegian-American household that treated work as a language. He learned early that a day is something you finish, not something you wait for. He cut ferns until trays looked inevitable on trucks. A fernery cutter knife sheath oiled decided what the shed could sell. Colleagues still mention a fernery cutter knife sheath oiled. He married Evelyn in 1973. They kept a house that stayed modest when the neighborhood did not. They raised four children through public schools and ordinary weather. After Evelyn died in 2017, he kept the routines that still made sense: the walk, the garden, the Sunday call. Neighbors remember quiet help with a stuck mailbox or a heavy trash can. Mornings were his favorite shift at home. He died in Bridgeport, on streets that already knew his pace. The Sunday call still has a time slot in the house.