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15 October 2024

COOGAN Death Notices extracted from the "Deaths Reported", "Deaths",
"Obituaries" and "Died" pages of the "Waterloo Evening Courier" and
"Waterloo Evening Courier and Reporter" [IA] [Date listed is 
publication date]:
***Note - not a complete listing***


20 SEP 1912 (incomplete)
..."Baby Coogan" died... [18 SEP 1902] ...Mr. and Mrs. Peter J.
Coogan...

12 JUN 1914 - [PAGE 13]
COOGAN RITES HELD - Funeral services over the remains of James
Edward Coogan [NOTE - should be John Coogan], whose body was 
recovered from the Cedar Wednesday, were held yesterday from the
O'Keefe & Towne chapel to which they had been removed yesterday at
the request of the boy's parents.  Rev. Father D. J. Lenihan of
Sacred Heart church officiated and interment was made in Calvary.

26 OCT 1928 - "Mortuary" [PAGE 2]
MRS. DANIEL T. DONAHUE - Funeral services for Mrs. Daniel T. 
Donahue, 71, 618 Pine street, who died yesterday after an illness 
of five days will be at St. Joseph's Catholic church Monday at 9 
a.m. Burial will be in Calvary.  Katherine Coogan was born at 
Kingston, N.Y., Feb. 3, 1857.  She married Daniel T. Donahue at 
Hawley, Pa., Aug. 3, 1874, and six years later they removed to 
Oelwein, where the family resided until 1913, the year of locating
in Waterloo.  Nine children survive: Mrs. William Kaumans, Daniel
jr., Ambrose and Walter, all of Waterloo; John, Waverley; Mrs. Dan
Doherty, Chicago; Mrs. Ernest Hadley, South Bend, Ind.; Joe,
Williston, N.D.; and Terry, Danville, Ill.  Her husband preceded
her in death by six months.  A daughter, Mrs. Abbie Kotchkiss, died
in January, 1927.  Members of the Rosary society of St. Joseph's
church will meet at 8 o'clock this evening at the home to recite
the rosary.

22 JAN 1930 - [PAGE 11]
MRS. M. E. MORSE DIES AT 86; EARLY IOWA RESIDENT - Funeral Services
to Be Held on Thursday at Decorah - Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Morse, 86,
died at 6:40 a.m. Wednesday [22 JAN 1930] at the home of her 
daughter, Mrs. J. T. Tucker, 1442 Second street west, from 
complications of age.  Mary E. Headington was born Nov. 25, 1843, 
in Knox County, Ohio, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin 
Headington.  When she was a small child, she came with her parents 
to Winneshiek county, Iowa.  She was married in 1868 to Peter 
Coogan. To this union two daughters were born, Mrs. Lou M. Tucker, 
Waterloo, and Mrs. Cora Dwyer, Oklahoma City.  Mr. Coogan died in 
1896.  In 1903 Mrs. Coogan was married to Lyman Morse. The couple 
resided 10 years at Chico, Cal., where Mr. Morse died.  Mrs. Morse 
returned to Decorah, Ia., where she resided until 1922, when she 
came to Waterloo to make her home with her daughter.  Mrs. Morse 
was a member of the Congregational church at Decorah. Three grand-
children and four great grandchildren also survive.  The body, at 
Peterson Bros.' mortuary, was to be sent at midnight to Decorah, 
where funeral services will be held Thursday, with burial at 
Decorah.

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