Allegany County MD Archives Obituaries..... James Oliver COSGROVE, 1945
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Evening Times, Cumberland, Maryland, 25 Aug 1945: 
"MISSING AT SEA: Ensign James O. Cosgrove, 23, (above-photo), son of Mrs. Adeline 
Cosgrove, of Welch, W. Va., has been missing at sea in the Pacific theatre since 
August 16.  He is the nephew of Mrs. F. H. Doerner and Miss Veronica Cosgrove, of 
205 Wallace street.  A frequent visitor to Cumberland and Frostburg when he was 
in Naval Training at Mt. St. Mary's College, Emmettsburg, and at Harvard 
University.  Ensign Cosgrove served as a dispersing officer on a destroyer escort.  
His father, the late Oliver V. Cosgrove, was a native of Frostburg."


Evening Times, Cumberland, Maryland, Tuesday, September 18, 1945:  
"Ensign Cosgrove Rites-Mr. and Mrs. F. H. Doerner, 205 Wallace street, returned 
from Welch, W. Va., where they attended funeral services last Saturday for their 
nephew, Ensign James Oliver Cosgrove, who was drowned August 16 while on naval duty 
in the Pacific as a member of the crew on a destroyer escort.  A solemn requiem 
mass was sung in St. Peter's Catholic Church in Welch, by the Rev. Thomas Rafferty, 
pastor of Sacred Heart church, Powhatan, W. Va.  Interment was in Woodlawn Cemetery 
in Welch.  The body was brought to Welch for burial escorted by a contingent of the 
military.  Ensign Cosgrove was the son of Mrs. Adeline Cosgrove, of Welch, and the 
late Oliver V. Cosgrove, a former resident of Frostburg.  Other survivors include 
three sisters, Regina and Mary Ennis Cosgrove, at home; and Mrs. W. P. Kerns, Jr., 
Raton, N. M."


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