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23 December 2012

Obituary of Bernard Coogan

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(extracted from "Staten Island Advance" [NY], 13 NOV 2012, PAGE A10):

BERNARD COOGAN , 64
Date of Death: 11/10/2012
McKee alumnus was NYPD officer

Bernard E. Coogan, 64, of Edison, N.J., a retired city police officer 
and restaurant owner, died Saturday in St. Peter's Medical Center, 
New Brunswick, N.J.

Born in Brooklyn, he moved with family to West Brighton as a boy and 
graduated from McKee High School.  He settled in Huguenot in 1973 and 
lived there until 1999, when he relocated to Edison.

Mr. Coogan was a city police officer for 10 years, retiring in 1975.

He loved the food business and restaurants, and in the late 1970s 
owned Davey Jones Locker, an eatery in Eatontown, N.J.

While on the Island, he was a parishioner of Our Lady Star of the Sea 
R.C. Church, Huguenot.

Mr. Coogan is survived by his wife of 39 years, the former Margaret 
Aitken; his son, Darren; his daughter, Kelli Kastinbrakis; two 
brothers, Edward and Kenny; two sisters, Joyce and Lorraine, and three
grandchildren.

The funeral service was scheduled for this evening at 8:45 p.m. in the 
Costello-Greiner Funeral Home, Woodbridge, N.J. Arrangements include 
cremation.

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