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---
category: "Crime & Abuse Networks"
tags:
- Person
- RCHorsch
- BucksCounty
alias:
- Clara Hagerty
- Clara Hagerty Hoersch
summary: "Mother of the pornographer and fugitive R.C. Horsch, a daughter of a Stroudsburg family who lived with her husband Raymond C. Hoersch in Bucks County."
location: "Chalfont, Pennsylvania"
relations:
- type: spouse_of
with: "[[Raymond C. Hoersch]]"
fn: 1
- type: relative_of
with: "[[R.C. Horsch]]"
role: "mother"
fn: 2
- type: relative_of
with: "[[Cecilia T. Hagerty]]"
role: "daughter"
fn: 2
created: 2026-09-23
updated: 2026-09-23
---
Clara Hoersch, born Clara Hagerty, was the wife of the engineer and former glider pilot [[Raymond C. Hoersch]] and the mother of the [[Philadelphia]] pornographer, counterfeiter, and fugitive [[R.C. Horsch]]. She was a daughter of [[Eugene D. Hagerty]] and [[Cecilia T. Hagerty]] of [[Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania|Stroudsburg]] in the [[Pocono Mountains|Poconos]], where her son was born in 1943.[^1][^2][^3]
### Family
In January 1955 a [[Bucks County, Pennsylvania|Bucks County]] social column reported that Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Hoersch had been honored at a New Year's Eve party in [[Paoli, Pennsylvania|Paoli]] for their thirteenth wedding anniversary, and that her brother and sister-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Elwood Hagerty of [[Reading, Pennsylvania|Reading]], had visited them.[^1] Her son said that his mother was a housewife during his early childhood on a farm near Stroudsburg.[^4] In September 1969 she and her husband, then of [[Doylestown, Pennsylvania|Doylestown]], attended her parents' fiftieth wedding anniversary in Stroudsburg with their daughter Helen.[^5]
In September 1971 her husband bought property in [[Chalfont, Pennsylvania|Chalfont]], and the family house at 523 North Main Street was the address their son gave in his 1972 suit against the Army and the house where, according to officials, he had been living when the [[United States Secret Service]] arrested him for counterfeiting in December 1974.[^6][^7] Her mother's obituary of October 1991 lists her among the survivors as "Clara Hoersch of Chalfont, Bucks County," with her brothers Elwood, of [[Wyomissing Hills, Pennsylvania|Wyomissing Hills]], and Olen, Ottmar, and Carl, of Stroudsburg.[^2]
### Footnotes
[^1]: [Social column], *The Daily Intelligencer* (Doylestown), January 10, 1955, p. 2. https://www.newspapers.com/image/40163522/
[^2]: "Cecilia T. Hagerty," obituary, *The Morning Call,* October 26, 1991, p. 115. https://www.newspapers.com/image/283774999/
[^3]: "How a pornographer's violent fantasies blurred fact and fiction as cops searched Olney house for missing women," *The Philadelphia Inquirer,* August 2, 2026. https://www.inquirer.com/news/a/raymond-eugene-horsch-olney-philadelphia-missing-women-history-20260802.html
[^4]: West, Ashley. "Unknowing Ray Horsch, Episode 1: Youth," *The Rialto Report,* Podcast 171, September 13, 2026, audio at 08:50 to 09:09. https://www.therialtoreport.com/2026/09/13/ray-horsch-2/
[^5]: [Report of the fiftieth wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Hagerty], *Pocono Record* (Stroudsburg), September 26, 1969, p. 6. https://www.newspapers.com/image/40464241/
[^6]: [Bucks County real-estate transfers], *The Daily Intelligencer,* September 10, 1971, p. 8. https://www.newspapers.com/image/47552873/
[^7]: "[...] bogus $180,000 in Bucks raid," *The Morning Call* (Allentown), December 11, 1974, p. 5. https://www.newspapers.com/image/275702319/