Memorial set for doctor who died in Virgin Islands
A Pembroke Pines cardiologist who died in the British Virgin Islands will be remembered Sunday at a service in Cooper City.
The body of Dr. Joseph Horgan was found Dec. 20 in the waters near Tortola, according to his family and the Royal Virgin Islands Police.
Horgan, 65, lived in Sunrise. An avid sailor, he had traveled to Tortola to check on the repairs to his 46-foot catamaran, B’Shert II, which had been damaged during 2017’s Hurricane Irma, his son Jason Horgan said.
Authorities found the boat without Horgan aboard. After an investigation by local authorities, the family was told that Horgan drowned, Horgan said.
Joseph Horgan moved to South Florida in the early 1980s after completing his medical training in Connecticut.
He ran his private practice from an office at Memorial Hospital West in Pembroke Pines, the hospital said.
Horgan’s survivors include his wife, Tobi Horgan, and four adult children, four grandchildren, four adult stepchildren and four stepgrandchildren.
At 2:30 p.m. Sunday, a service will be held at Temple Beth Emet, 4807 S. Flamingo Road, in Cooper City.
Instead of flowers, the family asked that donations be made in Horgan’s memory to any of the following organizations: The EhlersDanlos Society; The American Heart Association; Cancer Research Institute or Doctors Without Borders. The burial will be private. For more information, call Levitt Weinstein/Beth David Hollywood, at 954-963-2400.