Obituary Record

Margaret (Colligan) Hogan
Died on 3/16/1957
Buried in Holy Cross (Catholic Church) Cemetery

Buried in Holy Cross Cemetery, Blair

Published in Pilot Tribune on 21 March 1957

MRS. HOGAN, 93, SUCCUMBS

ONETIME NASHVILLE WOMAN DIED IN MINNESOTA; CATHOLIC RITES HELD

Mrs. Margaret Hogan, 93, widow of Thomas S. Hogan and former Nashville resident for many years, died Saturday at the home of her son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Leo T. Hogan, in Mankato, Minn.

Funeral rites were held at Holy Rosary Catholic Church in Mankato Monday, after which the body was brought to Blair. With the Campbell Mortuary in charge, burial took place in Holy Cross Cemetery here Wednesday morning.

Mrs. Hogan, as Margaret Colligan, was born at Iowa City, Ia., Mar. 28, 1863. She and Mr. Hogan were married at Lyons in 1894 and were Nebraskans for many years. Mr. Hogan died in 1930. He was a veteran employee of the M. & O. Railroad.

Surviving the elderly ex-countian are her son, Leo; a daughter, Alice, also of Mankato; one granddaughter, Mary Clare Hogan of Omaha; two brothers, William Colligan of Lyons and John Colligan of Oakland; and four sisters, Mrs. Clyde Barton of Pender, Misses Nelle, Mary and Alice Colligan of Oakland.

~~~ Obituary courtesy of the Washington County Genealogical Society. Newspaper clippings on file in the Blair Public Library at Blair, Nebraska.~~~

See Find-A-Grave Memorial 129272437

Printed in the Washington County Pilot-Tribune on 3/21/1957


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