http://www.cooganresearchgroup.com/crg/index.htm 27 December 2010 Obituary of Paul M. Coogan __________________________________________________________________ (extracted from "Chicago Tribune" [IL], 11 APR 1952): PEORIA - April 10 - Paul M. Coogan, 55, owner of the Coogan Gravel co., died here today. He was born in Lincoln, Ill. __________________________________________________________________ (extracted from "?" [IL], 12 APR 1952, PAGE A-16): PAUL M. COOGAN RITES MONDAY [photo; caption: "PAUL M. COOGAN"] Peorian Owner of Gravel Company Funeral services for Paul M. Coogan, 55, of 415 Wisconsin avenue, owner of the Coogan Gravel Co., at Chillicothe, who died at 11:10 a.m. Thursday at St. Francis hospital, will be held at 8:30 a.m. Monday at the Boland mortuary chapel and at 9 at St. Bernard's Catholic church. Msgr. M. P. Sammon will officiate and burial will be in St. Mary's cemetery. Friends may call at the mortuary after Sunday noon and there will be a recitation of the rosary at 8 p.m. Mr. Coogan was born in Lincoln Oct. 5, 1896, and had resided in Peoria 25 years. He was a son of James and Ann Edwards Coogan, and married Elizabeth Shields at Bloomington Jan. 24, 1920. He was a former member of the Peoria county board of supervisors and was a member of St. Bernard's Catholic church, the Men's club of the parish, and a charter member of the St. Vincent de Paul society. Surviving are his wife; three sons, James M. Coogan of Malvern, Ark., and Paul M. Coogan Jr. and Phillip Coogan, both of Peoria; four daughters, Mary Jane Coogan, Mrs. Ann Wombacher, Sheila Catherine Coogan and Virginia Coogan, all of Peoria; one grand- child, and nine brothers and sisters, James Coogan of Springfield, Thomas Coogan of Kansas City, Mo., the Rev. John C. Coogan, SJ, of Detroit, Mich.; Sister Joan of Arc, BVM, of Lincoln, Neb., Sister M. Celesti, OSF, of Winona, Minn., Sister M. Phillipa, BVM, of Dubuque, Ia., Dr. Joseph Coogan of Henderson, Neb., the Rev Phillip Coogan, SJ, of Cleveland, Ohio, and Lawrence Coogan of Chillicothe. __________________________________________________________________