---
aliases:
  - Cecilia Hagerty
  - Cecilia T. Stock
category: "Other"
tags:
  - AbuseNetworks
  - Person
  - RCHorsch
  - Stroudsburg
summary: "Stroudsburg nurse and maternal grandmother of the pornographer and fugitive R.C. Horsch."
died: 1991-10-25
location: "Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania"
relations:
  - type: spouse_of
    with: "[[Eugene D. Hagerty]]"
    fn: 1
  - type: relative_of
    with: "[[Clara Hoersch]]"
    role: "mother"
    fn: 1
  - type: relative_of
    with: "[[R.C. Horsch]]"
    role: "grandmother"
    fn: 1
created: 2026-09-23
updated: 2026-09-23
---

Cecilia T. Hagerty, born Cecilia T. Stock (died October 25, 1991, aged 93), was a licensed practical nurse in [[Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania|Stroudsburg]] and the maternal grandmother of the [[Philadelphia]] pornographer and fugitive [[R.C. Horsch]], who was born near Stroudsburg in 1943.[^1][^2]

She was born in [[Reading, Pennsylvania|Reading]], a daughter of Thomas and Rosanna Stock, and married [[Eugene D. Hagerty]]; in September 1969 the couple's fiftieth wedding anniversary was celebrated in Stroudsburg with their children and grandchildren, among them Mr. and Mrs. [[Raymond C. Hoersch|Raymond Hoersch]] of [[Doylestown, Pennsylvania|Doylestown]] and Mrs. Raymond Hoersch Jr. of Philadelphia. She worked as a nurse at the former Rosenkrans Hospital in Stroudsburg and was one of the first nurses at the Laurel Manor Nursing Home there, and was a member of [[St. John's Lutheran Church (Stroudsburg)|St. John's Lutheran Church]]. She lived on Sarah Street and died at the [[Pocono Medical Center]] in [[East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania|East Stroudsburg]], survived by her daughter [[Clara Hoersch]] of [[Chalfont, Pennsylvania|Chalfont]], four sons in Berks County and Stroudsburg, a sister, sixteen grandchildren, and great-grandchildren.[^1][^3]

### Footnotes

[^1]: "Cecilia T. Hagerty," obituary, *The Morning Call,* October 26, 1991, p. 115; also October 27, 1991, p. 107. https://www.newspapers.com/image/283774999/
[^2]: "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
[^3]: [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/