Obituary:

Leo Harold Gahagan
(1908-1974)

[Leo Gahagan was my granduncle by marriage.]

The Sheboygan Press, 1974:

LEO GAHAGAN

Leo (Irish) Gahagan, 65, of 1209 N. 12th St., Sheboygan, formerly of Plymouth, died Friday afternoon at St. Nicholas Hospital following a lengthy illness.

Born on Nov. 6, 1908 at Marshfield, he was a son of the late George and Julia Gosline Gahagan.

He married Francis [sic] Barrett Fee at St. John the Baptist Catholic Church, Plymouth, on Aug. 27, 1930.

Mr. Gahagan was employed by Borden Food Co., Plymouth, retiring after 40 years of service, when he moved to Sheboygan.

Survivors include his widow, five daughters, Mrs. Daniel (Pat) Gross of Winneconne, and Mrs. Lanny (Beverly) Schirmer, Mrs. Harold (Audrey) Stone, Mrs. Carl (Marilyn) Radtke and Mrs. Roland (Sharon) Struve, all of Plymouth; 21 grandchildren and a great-grandson; eight brothers, Frances [sic], Morris and George, Sheboygan, Marvin of Milwaukee, Lloyd of Waldo, Jerome and James, Plymouth, and Gilbert of Roff, Okla., and a sister, Mrs. Leroy Wilcomm, West Bend.

A sister and two brothers preceded him in death.

Funeral services will be Monday at 10 a.m. at the Huss Funeral Home, Plymouth, and at 10:30 at St. John the Baptist Church, the Rev. Richard Baer, pastor, celebrant of the requiem Mass. Burial will be in the parish cemetery.

Friends may call at the funeral home after 2 p.m. Sunday. A parish vigil will be held there at 8 p.m. Sunday.

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