Doris Kathleen Hock

Doris Donovan Hock passed away peacefully on February 10, 2025, at Peconic Landing in Greenport, N.Y. at the age of 101. Doris was born in Queens, N.Y. to Ethel and John Donovan. She had many happy and colorful memories of her years through 8th grade when she traveled the thoroughbred race horse circuit with her owner/trainer parents and attended three different schools each year from New Hampshire to Florida and across to California. In 9th grade and through to her college years she attended school full time in Coral Gables and Miami, Florida. In 1944 she married James Hock and they moved from Miami to an apartment in Jamaica, Queens to be near the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Two of their six children were born during this time. All the while they promised themselves that they would get back to warmer weather once the war was over. However, with N.Y. business success and a growing family, they moved to Long Island- first to Malverne, then West Hempstead an Lloyd Harbor. “Mema” enjoyed gardening, knitting, bridge, golfing, painting traveling with friends and spoiling her grandchildren and great grandchildren. Doris was an official and player in the WMGA- Women’ Metropolitan Golf Association winning many events. (She finally gave her golf clubs to a great grandson when she wa 95.) Doris was an accomplished watercolorist focusing on landscapes and still life. In the 1970s she and a partner opened Katinka in Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y. The shop carried clothing, yarn, hand knit sweaters and Doris was always there to help you. She was a patient teacher sharing her golfing painting and knitting skills with many- young and old. She was predeceased by her husband, James, in 2008, and her daughter, Lisa Ann Hock Mack, who died this past November after a brief illness. Doris is survived by fiv children,13 grandchildren and 12 great grandchildren: Suzanne Pindyck (Frank) & children Jennifer Pindyck (Marshall), Stephanie Pindyck Costantino (Tony), Lindsay Pindyck Carter (Bill); James Hock (Linda) & children Lisa Marie Warren (Joseph), James (Maryanne), Krissy Citro (Ryan) & Kerri Mudgett (Christian); John Hock (Sarah) & children Ian (Eva), Emily Hock Lincoln (Cameron); Michael Hock (Marnie) & children Jameson & Charles, Kathleen Ferrari & children Zack & Casey Freeman. A service will be held at Huntington’s St. Patrick’s Catholic Church on March 22, at 9:15, after which the family will gather privately.

Doris Kathleen Hock

December 25, 1923 - February 10, 2025