OBIT: Frank J. CARRIGO, 1948, formerly of Cresson, Cambria County, PA

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Altoona Mirror
Tuesday, July 27, 1948
page 21

VETERAN BURIED WITH HONORS

(Special to Altoona Mirror)

CRESSON, July 27. - Full military honors were accorded Frank J. Carrigo, aged 
53, a veteran of World war I and former local resident, yesterday morning in 
St. Francis Xavier's Catholic church.  Rev. Father Walter M. Kurdziel, 
assistant pastor, conducted the services and the additional rites at the 
Cresson post 238, American Legion plot in St. Aloysius cemetery, Summit, 
where the body was interred.

Mr. Carrigo died Friday afternoon in the veterans' hospital in Cleveland, 
O., where he was admitted one week ago.

He was born in Washington, D.C., Nov. 20, 1894, a son of B. F. and Regina 
(Guinivan) Carrigo.  He was reared in Cresson.  With the outbreak of World 
war I in 1917, he enlisted in Pittsburgh and served with the first outfit to 
reach France.

Mr. Carrigo married Thirza Palmer, who preceded him in death many years 
ago.  Members of his family include a brother, Harry W. Carrigo, sr., of 
Cleveland, O.

He was a member of the American Legion and the Fraternal Order of Eagles.