Allegany County MD Archives Obituaries..... Bernard J. COULEHAN, 1928
 
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Evening Times, Cumberland, Maryland, 20 July 1928
LAST RITES HELD FOR
BERNARD J. COULEHAN
Exemplary Life Told in Eulogy
by Rev. Edward H. Roach
at St. Patrick's.
The funeral of Bernard J. Coulehan, who died Wednesday morning at his home, 631 Cumberland 
street, tool place this morning with a solemn Mass of Requiem at St. Patrick's church.  
Burial was in SS Peter and Paul cemetery.  A large congregation of friends and former 
associates of the deceased attended the obsequies.  The solemn requiem mass was celebrated 
by Rev. John M. B. Coulehan, of Maryknoll, N.Y., son of the deceased; Rev. Edward H. Roach, 
of St. Patrick's church, was deacon; Rev. Wm. J. Shea, of of the American Foreign Mission 
Society, Maryknoll, N.y, sub-deacon; and Rev. M. J. Cuddy, of St. Patrick's church, master 
of ceremonies.  The following priests were in the sanctuary: Rev. Fr. Simon, O. M. Cap., 
pastor of SS. Peter and Paul Church; Rev. John W. Lawless, pastor of St. Mary's Church; 
Rev. Robert Kilgannon, of St. Anthony's Church, Ridgeley, W. Va.; Very Rev. J. J. Brady, 
of SS. Philip and James Church, Meyersdale, Pa., Rev. Gerald  J. Finan, of St. Michael's 
Church, Frostburg, Md., and Rev. Bernard W. Procise, of St. Paul's church, Baltimore, Md.  
A brief funeral sermon was delivered by Rev. Edward H. Roach of St. Patrick's Church.  
Father Roach pointed to the perfect faith; deep religious zeal; dutifulness, kindness, 
and loyalty to fellow men; and a patience and cheerful docility during during years of 
physical suffering from illness, practiced by Mr. Coulehan, as an exemplification of one 
of the finest Christian characters the speaker had ever known. The life customs, constant 
practices, cheerfulness in suffering and noble unostentacious charities of the deceased, 
the speaker said, made a truly exemplary life that inspired perfect confidence in the hope 
that the deceased would enjoy eternal reward in the life beyond the grave.  Five sons and 
a son-in-law of Mr. Coulehan were pallbearers at the funeral. They were: Wm. Coulehan, 
Cincinnati, Ohio.; Edward, Carroll, Bernard and Joseph Coulehan, and Patrick J. Boyle, 
of this city."


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