OBIT: Frank J. BROGAN, 1932, Salisbury, Somerset County, Pa

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FRANK J. BROGAN

  Frank J. Brogan, who came to Salisbury in 1898 with his parents, and lived in 
Salisbury and vicinity during nearly all of the remainder of his life, died in 
the County Hospital, Jan. 28, 1932, aged 49 years and a few days.
  About 25 years ago he married Miss Pearl Meese, the eldest daughter of Mr. and 
Mrs. Chauncey Meese.  At that time he was an industrious, healthy young man, and 
it was not long until he provided his splendid young wife with a very 
comfortable and well furnished home.  Through the legacy left him by a relative 
in another state, he also acquired other property in Salisbury, and for some 
years was quite prosperous.  However, much to the regret of his real friends and 
all the right-thinking persons who knew him, he in time became mixed up in the 
illicit traffic in liquor, and also became very intemperate in his habits.  Mrs. 
Brogan, who was as loyal and noble a wife and mother as any man could wish for, 
as well as a most efficient housekeeper, and home-maker, bore with him and his 
weaknesses as long as she possibly could, and then, principally for the welfare 
of their young son, Jack, she left him, taking her boy with her, and located in 
Youngstown, Ohio, about six years ago, where she had no trouble in getting 
employment at good wages and has prospered there ever since.  She is held in the 
highest of esteem by all who know her in Youngstown, just as she always was 
here.  Her boy has stood nobly by his good mother, and is now a very exemplary 
young man of 19 years.
  The checkered career her husband led since and before their separation is so 
well known by the people of Salisbury and vicinity, that complete details may 
well be omitted, and what is here said concerning the failings of the man, is 
said only in the hope that it may keep others from following in the same 
disastrous course, for the liquor traffic, be it carried on legally or 
illegally, as well as the excessive drinking of liquor, is a blighting curse to 
all who touch it, and its wages are death.
  In spite of his failings, Frank Brogan had some very good and likable traits.  
The writer never heard him say a disrespectable word concerning his wife, and 
doubts whether anybody else ever did.  More than once has the writer heard him 
say that all the troubles and physical suffering which came to him in the latter 
years of his life, were blamable only to himself.  He was not given to self-
pity, nor to blame others for the woes of his closing years.  He manfully 
shouldered the blame himself, and when he died, as soon as his noble wife heard 
of it, she did what she always had said she would do, namely, see to it that he 
was given a decent and Christian burial, if she survives him.
  By her arrangement, Funeral Director W. C. Price, of Meyersdale, procured the 
body, prepared it for burial at his undertaking establishment, and permitted the 
funeral service to be held in his home, where a very nice service was conducted 
by Rev. S. D. Sigler, pastor of the Salisbury Lutheran Church, Wednesday, the 
4th inst., at 1 a.m.
  Interment was made in the I.O.O.F. Cemetery, at Salisbury, where Mr. Brogan 
owned a lot, and was buried by the side of his father, who died some years ago.  
He is survived by his wife and son and a married sister who resides in 
Rochester, N.Y.  He has no relatives residing in this state.  His wife and son 
attended his funeral.

Meyersdale Republican, February 11, 1932