http://www.cooganresearchgroup.com/crg/index.htm 19 January 2020 Obituary of Barbara Tracy Coogan (extracted from "Boston Globe", 01 APR 1987, PAGE 55): BARBARA COOGAN, 81 RETIRED ZOOLOGIST A memorial service will be held at 2 p.m. Friday, April 3, in the Eliot Church, Newton Centre, for Barbara (Tracy) Coogan of Pomfret, Vt., a retired zoologist. Mrs. Coogan died Sunday in Arlington, Tex. She was 81. She was born in Cleveland, graduated from Connecticut College in 1927, and received a master of science degree in zoology from Case Western Reserve University. She worked as a zoologist at the Illinois State Museum in Springfield. Mrs. Coogan lived in Newton Centre for more than 30 years and was active in many civic organizations there, including the Campfire Girls, of which she is one of the earliest members. In the 1950s and 1960s she was instrumental in the growth of the Campfire Girls in Newton. She served in leadership positions on the Newton Campfire Committee from 1950 to 1973. In 1971, she received the special Gulick Award, a national Campfire award in recognition of her outstanding Council leadership in Campfire organization for more than 25 years. Mrs. Coogan was active in her church and was a vice president of the Women's Benevolent Society of the First Church in Newton, as well as serving on many committees and boards of the church. Mrs. Coogan wrote a history of the society, published in 1974, just after the dissolution of the First Church. She was accomplished in both music and drama and often organized musical shows for the church and other civicgroups. Mrs. Coogan was a president of the Bowen School PTA in Newton. She leaves two sons, Peter W., of Newton Centre, and Matthew Allen Coogan of Boston; two daughters, Eleanor Merrill of Arlington, Tex., and Rosalind Anderson of Newton; and 11 grandchildren.