http://www.cooganresearchgroup.com/crg/index.htm 06 November 2021 COOGAN Death Notices extracted from the "Deaths Reported", "Deaths", "Died" and "Obituaries" pages of the "Ridgefield Press" [CT] [Date listed is publication date]: ***Note - not a complete listing*** 04 DEC 1969 (incomplete) COOGAN, W. Gordon... ...born in 1888... 03 NOV 1983 - [PAGE 2] THEODORE H. COOGAN, VETERAN FINANCIER, SUDDENLY AT AGE 74 - Ridgefield paid its final tribute Monday to Theodore Havemeyer Coogan, town official and distinguished citizen. A Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated before a capacity congregation by the Rev. Charles Stubs, pastor, in St. Mary's Church. First Selectman Elizabeth Leonard and State Representative Martha Rothman, together with Edward DeLisle and Richard Dingee, in uniform and representing the police and fire departments were honorary pall- bearers. Burial was in St. Mary's Cemetery. The town hall was draped in black and the flag was at half staff in memory of Mr. Coogan, a member of the Board of Finance for 27 years. Earlier this year, a similar official tribute had been paid to Former Selectman Julius Tulipani. Mr. Coogan died suddenly last Thursday, Oct. 27, at Norwalk Hospital, to which he had been taken earlier that morning. He was 74, the husband of Mary Louise (Marisa) Frank Coogan with whom he had made his home for many years at 13 Whipstick Road. Mr. Coogan was born in Newport, R.I. Aug. 28, 1909, a son of Dorothea Potter Coogan of New York City and of the late William Gordon Coogan. His father, who died in 1969, was a onetime part owner of the Polo Grounds in New York and was an early aide and close friend of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Mr. Coogan's paternal grandfather was James J. Coogan, once candidate for mayor of New York and the first Borough President of Manhattan after consolidation of the five boroughs of the city in 1898. His maternal grandmother was Theodore A. Havemeyer, founder of the American Sugar Refining Company. Mr. Coogan was a member of the Harvard College Class of 1933 and for half a century devoted himself to real estate as a broker and consultant, with offices in New York City and Ridgefield. He belonged to the Real Estate Boards of Connecticut, Massachusetts and New York and the Ridgefield Board of Realtors. During World War II he served in North Africa and Italy. He was a member of the Army Reserves until his retirement with the rank of lieutenant colonel. He belonged to the Retired Officers Association and to the Profile Club of Franconia, N.H. Mr. Coogan, a Republican, was first appointed to the Ridgefield Board of Finance in 1955 during the first administration of First Selectman Leo F. Carroll. He continued in office to the present under four succeeding chief executives. In all his years as a public servant, Mr. Coogan took a leading role in town affairs, not only the financial ones. He was outspoken on such matters as the town's schools and building projects, the library's expansion, candidates for office and political goings-on. He expressed his opinions forcefully, not only at town meetings and other public gatherings, but in frequent and forceful letters to The Press. In many of these, such as his support of Democrat Louis Fossi for first selectman and subsequently of Elizabeth Leonard, he was joined by Mrs. Coogan. Besides his wife and his mother, Mr. Coogan is survived by a son, Theodore H. Coogan Jr. of Willimatic; two daughters, Joan C. Robertson of Marblehead, Mass. and Emily C. Bennett of Richmond, Va.; three brothers, Richard C.P. Coogan of Studio City, Cal., Jay Gardiner Coogan of Westminster, Cal. and David Gordon Coogan of Boonton, N.J.; four sisters, Emily M. Fatzler of Red Bank, N.J., Dorothea C. Jesser of Ridgewood, N.J., Nina C.P. Ippolito of East Norwalk, and Patricia C. Lindsley of New York City; and two grand- children, Sandra J. and Joan C.P. Robertson. Memorial contributions may be made to the District Nusing [sic] Association of Ridgefield or to one's favorite charity. The Kane Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements. 14 NOV 1996 (incomplete) [...] NINA IPPOLITO, SISTER OF LATE FINANCIER - Nina Coogan Peabody, 26 year resident of Wilton and sister of the late... 10 AUG 2021 MARY LOUISE COOGAN (1921 - 2021) - Mary Louise "Marisa" (Frank) Coogan, a resident at Putnam Farm in Danvers, MA, and formerly of Marblehead, MA, and Ridgefield, CT, died on August 6, 2021. She was 100 years old. Born at home in Rome, Italy on March 12, 1921, to Augustus Frank and Maria Dorotea (Griffon) Frank, Marisa spent the first years of her life in Rome, attending school and being educated by English nuns, where she became fluent in English and French, as well as in her native Italian. Marisa moved with her family to Paris in 1936 and was living there in 1939, under Nazi occupation, until 1941. As U.S. citizens, she, her brother, and her mother were evacuated from France to Spain and eventually repatriated to the United States. After the United States entered the war against Germany, Marisa joined the Red Cross as a multi- lingual translator, where she eventually served alongside U.S. troops in Morocco, Algeria, Libya, Sicily, and the Italian mainland from 1942 until the end of the war in 1945. Her linguistic skills led to assignments as a translator to senior U.S. military staff as they liberated Italy. While in Italy, she met her future husband, Theodore Havemeyer Coogan, also serving there, and they were married in Bari, Italy. After the War, Marisa and Ted moved to Manhattan, and in 1946 settled in Ridgefield, CT, where they raised three children, and where Marisa and her mother founded and ran a successful women's sportswear clothing business until the early 1970s. When her mother died, Marisa joined her husband's real estate business and worked with him until his death in 1983. She then moved to Marblehead, MA, to be closer to her children, and where she became a partner in her daughter's hors d'oeuvres manufacturing business, Good Wives Hors D'Oeuvres. She is survived by her three children: Nina Robertson, Mimi Bennett, and Ted Coogan, and their spouses Bruce Robertson, Richard Bennett, and Donna Ritchie; by six grandchildren, Sandra Robertson Gamble, Sean Robertson, Kevin Bennett, Sarah Bennett, Alex Coogan, and Katie Coogan; and by eight great-grandchildren, Madi and Clay Gamble; Kyle, Tessa, and Josh Robertson; Charlie, Sam, and Grant Bennett. Graveside funeral services and burial will take place in St. Mary's Cemetery, Ridgefield, CT, on August 13, 2021, at 10:30 AM. In lieu of flowers, should you wish to make a gift in her memory, she was especially fond of St Jude Children's Research Hospital, as well as Dr. Patrick Y. Wen, Neuro-oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, c/o The Jimmy Fund. ____________________________________________________________________ *** (1983-1983) http://acorn-online.net/acornonline/obits/onindex.htm *** (1983-1983) http://news.google.com