http://www.cooganresearchgroup.com/crg/index.htm 18 June 2011 Obituary of Bernard A. Coogan ________________________________________________________________ (extracted from "New York Times" [NY], 28 JUN 1945, PAGE 19): BERNARD A. COOGAN Bernard A. Coogan of Rahway, N. J., an employee of Merck Company, Inc., manufacturing chemist there, and long identified with the work of the Knights of Columbus, died here yesterday in the Presbyterian Hospital after a brief illness. His age was 51. Born in Newark, he had resided in Rahway for more than twenty-five years. He leaves a widow, Loretta Langton Coogan; a son, S/Sgt. Bernard A. Coogan, with the United States Army in Germany, and a brother, Edward Coogan of South Amboy, N. J. ________________________________________________________________