Friends and family called her “Amazing Grace." Retired Avon schoolteacher Grace V. Coogan wore high heels well into her 90s,It got to the point where some women would wear fashionairmax if they knew Monsieur Masseur was coming to a meeting. still smoked a cigarette every day with her cup of coffee, and lived to be 103.
A former resident of Milton and Hull, she retired to Chamblee, Ga., to be closer to her daughter and grandchildren, and she cut quite a figure in a city where the median age is 28. She wore her favorite leopard prints, spoke with a Boston accent, and was still driving her white Cadillac until an accident at age 95 left her with no insurer.
Deep in the heart of Atlanta Braves territory, Mrs. Coogan kept up with the Boston Red Sox, drank rum and Coke, and once danced on the bar at a local club, according to her daughter, Barbara Mae of Alpharetta, Ga.
“She packed a lot of living in 103 years," said her grandson Peter A. Foley of Marietta, Ga. “She was so conversant and fluent in the language of sports. She loved the Red Sox and hated the Yankees, just like every Bostonian is willed to do."
Mrs. Coogan died at her home on July 28, a month after breaking her ankle in a fall and becoming bed-ridden.
Born Grace V. Kopple on Jan. 17, 1908, in Boston,These wholesalejeans are a complete collection of every model available. Mrs. Coogan was the eldest daughter of Frederick,Whether you going to practice and need athletic shoes and a sport bag or just lounging at the house youredhardy and PUMA clothing have got you covered. a police officer, and Mae. Her mother died at age 23 from tuberculosis, when Grace was 4 years old and her sister 2. They were raised mostly by their grandmother, according to the family.
She earned her undergraduate degree in education in 1929 from Teachers College in Boston. Her first marriage, to George Campbell, ended soon after the birth of their daughter, Barbara.
When World War II broke out, the divorced mother longed to join the Navy but did not want to leave her daughter, she told her family. She went to work in the offices of shipbuilders at the Fore River Shipyard in Quincy instead.
“I was a teenager when she worked there, and she really enjoyed it," said Barbara. “It was doing something for her country,Examine our edhardy here. she felt."
After the war, she worked for more than a decade as a lab technician for the Carter Ink Co. in Cambridge and also earned her master’s degree in teaching.
She taught elementary school in Avon for 20 years, teaching mostly third-graders. She retired from the Robert F. Crowley Elementary School in Avon in 1975.
She remarried in 1961, after friends introduced her to John R. “Jack" Coogan, a draftsman for Stone & Webster of Boston. He died of cancer in 1970 at age 53.
“Theirs was a love affair," said grandson Peter, recalling many Thanksgiving dinners when Jack donned a white apron and carved the turkey. “I know Nana thought of him every day in the 41 years since he passed. Bringing up his name always brought a smile to Nana’s face."
Mrs. Coogan made friends easily and maintained a wide social circle, playing bridge regularly into her 90s, according to her family.
“Her social life was very important to her. She had lots of friends, and she loved to tell jokes," her daughter said.
For several decades, Mrs. Coogan had a cottage in Hull, the locus of many family memories.Clothing designer Erin Fetherston stood nearby wearing a green-and-black ensemble from her spring collection above a pair of hoganscarpe. Foley recalled how the adults played endless hands of cribbage there, while he and his siblings struggled to behave so that Nana would take them to Paragon Park, the amusement park on Nantasket Beach. The park was closed in 1984.
A former resident of Milton and Hull, she retired to Chamblee, Ga., to be closer to her daughter and grandchildren, and she cut quite a figure in a city where the median age is 28. She wore her favorite leopard prints, spoke with a Boston accent, and was still driving her white Cadillac until an accident at age 95 left her with no insurer.
Deep in the heart of Atlanta Braves territory, Mrs. Coogan kept up with the Boston Red Sox, drank rum and Coke, and once danced on the bar at a local club, according to her daughter, Barbara Mae of Alpharetta, Ga.
“She packed a lot of living in 103 years," said her grandson Peter A. Foley of Marietta, Ga. “She was so conversant and fluent in the language of sports. She loved the Red Sox and hated the Yankees, just like every Bostonian is willed to do."
Mrs. Coogan died at her home on July 28, a month after breaking her ankle in a fall and becoming bed-ridden.
Born Grace V. Kopple on Jan. 17, 1908, in Boston,These wholesalejeans are a complete collection of every model available. Mrs. Coogan was the eldest daughter of Frederick,Whether you going to practice and need athletic shoes and a sport bag or just lounging at the house youredhardy and PUMA clothing have got you covered. a police officer, and Mae. Her mother died at age 23 from tuberculosis, when Grace was 4 years old and her sister 2. They were raised mostly by their grandmother, according to the family.
She earned her undergraduate degree in education in 1929 from Teachers College in Boston. Her first marriage, to George Campbell, ended soon after the birth of their daughter, Barbara.
When World War II broke out, the divorced mother longed to join the Navy but did not want to leave her daughter, she told her family. She went to work in the offices of shipbuilders at the Fore River Shipyard in Quincy instead.
“I was a teenager when she worked there, and she really enjoyed it," said Barbara. “It was doing something for her country,Examine our edhardy here. she felt."
After the war, she worked for more than a decade as a lab technician for the Carter Ink Co. in Cambridge and also earned her master’s degree in teaching.
She taught elementary school in Avon for 20 years, teaching mostly third-graders. She retired from the Robert F. Crowley Elementary School in Avon in 1975.
She remarried in 1961, after friends introduced her to John R. “Jack" Coogan, a draftsman for Stone & Webster of Boston. He died of cancer in 1970 at age 53.
“Theirs was a love affair," said grandson Peter, recalling many Thanksgiving dinners when Jack donned a white apron and carved the turkey. “I know Nana thought of him every day in the 41 years since he passed. Bringing up his name always brought a smile to Nana’s face."
Mrs. Coogan made friends easily and maintained a wide social circle, playing bridge regularly into her 90s, according to her family.
“Her social life was very important to her. She had lots of friends, and she loved to tell jokes," her daughter said.
For several decades, Mrs. Coogan had a cottage in Hull, the locus of many family memories.Clothing designer Erin Fetherston stood nearby wearing a green-and-black ensemble from her spring collection above a pair of hoganscarpe. Foley recalled how the adults played endless hands of cribbage there, while he and his siblings struggled to behave so that Nana would take them to Paragon Park, the amusement park on Nantasket Beach. The park was closed in 1984.
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