Paul Mougey

It is with sadness and love we share the news that Paul Howard Mougey passed away on January 16 2025. He died peacefully at his home in Hudson, Ohio surrounded by his family. Known to all as P. Howie, he was a robust and adventurous man. Smart and funny, tough and tender, he lived a full life and was 95 years old.

Born on December 29, 1929 in Stockholm, Sweden, he was the youngest of William John and Marjorie Helene Mougey's four children. William was a VP for General Motors and traveled the world to set up factories in Europe and South America. The story goes that Paul was born in a hurry on the kitchen table, but that may be a tale - Marjorie was known for a bit of story making. And maybe that's where Dad got his gift - he was a born raconteur. And he conjured a lifetime of stories : he attended his beloved Georgetown Prep in DC and graduated from Duke University, where his dad once paid him a surprise visit only to see, on his dorm room door, the nickname his fellow Dukies had dubbed him: All-Night Party Boy. Anybody who knew Paul would agree. He loved laughter and community, and he grabbed hold of life's excitements.

He was forever a proud Marine and said to us on his deathbed, "This is nothing compared to what our heroes experienced." He served during the Korean War and in 1951, while based at Camp Pendleton in California, he married Mary Ann Sanderson. Together they had five children - Marcey, Lynn (m. Alex MacLellan), Scott, Paul (m. Roger Heaton) and Mare, as well as 8 loving grandchildren. Paul began his career working for Alcoa in the Pan Am building in New York City and in 1968 relocated the family to Ohio to work for Clecon. He later opened his own successful metals distributorship, Metal Foils, in Willoughby, which he sold in 1998.

He served as President of the Hudson Rotary, taught Sunday School at St. Mary's, volunteered at Hospice, helped found and was an officer of the Hudson Community Foundation, was a devoted member and major golfer at Kirtland, Firestone and Hudson Country Clubs (where he scored a hole in one on hole number 3), and was President of the Hudson Tennis Club, where he met his second wife, Jane Ann Zagray Russell. Married for 43 years, they also traveled the world, parasailing in Tahiti, walking the Great Wall in China, taking a month long excursion in a retrofitted plane in the South Pacific, and inevitably, visited the Stockholm house with the mythic kitchen table.

We'll miss you. You were a ton of fun and always reminded us to not only look inward, but look outward and see the adventures around us. A celebration of Paul's life will be held at Kirtland Country Club later in the spring. Date TBD.