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26 June 2009

Obituary of William J. Coogan

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(extracted from "Kingston Daily Freeman" [NY], 07 NOV 1938, PAGE 7):

William J. Coogan of Brooklyn, a freshman at Notre Dame University,
South Bend, Ind., died Sunday morning at South Bend.  He had been 
ill for only two days.  The young student was born 18 years ago
today, the son of the late Dr. William J. Coogan, a native of 
Kingston who was employed as a reporter on The Freeman during his
medical school days, and Mrs. Margaret Patterson [sic] Coogan, of
Brooklyn.  Surviving are his mother, two younger brothers, John and
Robert; and his grand-mother, Mrs. Mary L. Coogan of South Manor
avenue, this city.  Funeral arrangements have not yet been made.

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(extracted from "South Bend Tribune" [IN], 07 NOV 1938, PAGE 1 or 2):

COOGAN - William J. Coogan... Brooklyn, NY...  Notre Dame student
who died here...

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(extracted from "Brooklyn Eagle", 08 NOV 1938, PAGE 9):

DIES AT SCHOOL

[photo; caption: "William J. Coogan"]

COOGAN, STUDENT AT NOTRE DAME

The funeral of William J. Coogan of 603 Putnam Ave., a freshman at
Notre Dame University, who died Sunday at St. Joseph's Hospital,
South Bend, Ind. of blood poisoning after an illness of three days,
will be held Thursday from his home, with a solemn high requiem
high mass at 10 a.m. in Our Lady of Victory R.C. Church.

Mr. Coogan, who would have been 18 yesterday, was a graduate of
Bishop Loughlin Memorial High School, where he was an honor student
for four years and had been president of the Dramatic Society, an
editor of the school paper, the Jamesonian, and a member of the
track team and the Cercle Francais.  

At Notre Dame he was a member of the Linnet Club and the Notre 
Dame Club of New York.

His father, Dr. William J. Coogan, who was well known in this 
borough as a physician, died when William was 3.  Surviving are his 
mother, Mrs. Margaret C. Coogan, and two brothers, John R. and
Robert F. Coogan.

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