JOHN JAMES McHUGH OBITUARY, SUFFOLK COUNTY, NEW YORK

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JOHN JAMES McHUGH

John James McHugh died late Friday afternoon at his home on Dunellen
Avenue from paralysis after an illness of about two months duration. He was
59 years of age and was born in County Cavan, Ireland, coming to this country
at the age of 25 years. For many years Mr. McHugh resided in Central Islip,
Long Island, and served his county and town in several official positions.
He was president of the Board of Education in Central Islip for several
years, an officer in the Methodist Episcopal Church there and Republican
county committeeman of Suffolk County. Owing to ill health he was
compelled to retire from active life about five years ago, when he came to
Dunellen to take up residence here, his family having preceded him.
Mr. McHugh was a member of the Central Islip Lodge ofWoodmen of the
World, and also Clan MacKenzie NO.204 of Plainfield. Besides his widow,
who was the former Miss Josephine Weeks of Long Island, the deceased is
survived by one son, George McHugh of Dunellen, and two daughters, Mrs.
Wilbur Ketcham, of Oyster Bay, Long Island, and Mrs. Charles Leach, of Tea
Neck. He also leaves three grandchildren. Prayer services were held by Clan
MacKenzie on Sunday evening at the late home of the deceased and the
funeral was held on Monday afternoon from the Dunellen Methodist
Episcopal church. Rev. M. I. Andariese officiated, assisted by Rev. E. R.
Brown. Interment was in Hillside Cemetary , Plainfield.
The pall bearers, selected from three organizations with which the late Mr.
McHugh had been associated during his residence here, were the following:
Joseph Martin and Charles Nonemaker, of the Dunellen Methodist Episcopal
Church; Joseph Hamley and William H. Clark, from the Dunellen
Presbyterian Baraca Class; James Douglas and John Dodds of Clan
MacKenzie.

(Note: Wife, Miss Josephine Weeks, had been married before her marriage
to John McHugh. Her first married name was Valentine. Her daughter by
Mr. Valentine was Edith (Mrs. Charles Leach) and her daughter by Mr .
McHugh was Mrs. Luella Ketcham. The three grandchildren are probably
Emerson and Lillian McHugh (twins) and their younger sister Eunice
Constance (George's children). Margorie McHugh had not been born at this
time.

When John and Josephine got married, they moved to Central Islip. Both
had met while working at the State Mental Hospital. John was possibly head
farmer, and J osephine worked as staff housekeeper for 8 doctors living in
the staffhouse.)