JOHN CORRIGAN
DIES WEDNESDAY
WIDELY KNOWN A Powhattan Basketball Coach
Brown County has lost one of its most widely known citizens in the death Wednesday, Dec. 1, 1965 of Johnnie E. Corrigan, 63 of Powhattan and the city of Powhattan is deeply grieved over loss of its beloved teacher, coach and city clerk.
Corrigan, a teacher and principal of the Powhattan high school for 39 years earned a name for himself and his school as an athletic coach, especially basketball. The Powhattan basketball team, under the coaching of Corrigan won the county championship 26 times since 1926, won many district and regional tourneys and sent teams to state basketball tournaments 10 times. He also had many winning football teams during the years he was Powhattan’s coach. and his teams were always a formidable foe.
Corrigan died early Wednesday morning at KU Medical Center, Kansas City from a heart condition. He had been a patient at the hospital for a week where he had gone for tests.
Johnnie Corrigan was born in Effingham, Nov. 11 1902. and graduated from the Effingham high school in 1918. He received his bachelor's degree from KU, Lawrence, in 1926 and his masters degree from Pittsburg State College. He had also studied law at Washburn University In Topeka.
Following his graduation from KU Corrigan went to Powhattan to teach, and his long career as an educator and athletic coach started then. He has served as the high school principal for many years. He was married in 1939 to Miss Riley of Powhattan, a Brown County teacher. They were parents of two daughters.
Corrigan was a member of the “K" Club at Kansas University. Masonic orders and the board of directors of the Kansas State High School Activities Association.
He is survived by his wife of the home: daughters, Mrs. Robert, Cash, Omaha Neb., and Miss Mary, Jo Corrigan student at KU Lawrence; two sisters, Mrs, Roy Will, Dennison and Mrs. Dorothy Henderson. Fort Pierce, Fla.; and one nephew.
Memorial services will be held Friday night at 8 o'clock at the Powhattan high school. Funeral services will be Saturday morning at 10 o'clock at the Chaney Chapel in Horton with Rev. Harold Wolff of Hiawatha, officiating, assisted by. Rev. C. B. Dennison of Nortonville. Burial will be in the Powhattan cemetery. Pallbearers will include Norman Hall, John Schumann, Sam Finger, Carol Lloyd, Raymond Sunderland. and Johnny Wenger.
A Johnnie Corrigan memorial fund for the Powhattan high school has been started, and contributions may be sent to the school or Clarence Pollock, Powhattan.
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DIES WEDNESDAY
WIDELY KNOWN A Powhattan Basketball Coach
Brown County has lost one of its most widely known citizens in the death Wednesday, Dec. 1, 1965 of Johnnie E. Corrigan, 63 of Powhattan and the city of Powhattan is deeply grieved over loss of its beloved teacher, coach and city clerk.
Corrigan, a teacher and principal of the Powhattan high school for 39 years earned a name for himself and his school as an athletic coach, especially basketball. The Powhattan basketball team, under the coaching of Corrigan won the county championship 26 times since 1926, won many district and regional tourneys and sent teams to state basketball tournaments 10 times. He also had many winning football teams during the years he was Powhattan’s coach. and his teams were always a formidable foe.
Corrigan died early Wednesday morning at KU Medical Center, Kansas City from a heart condition. He had been a patient at the hospital for a week where he had gone for tests.
Johnnie Corrigan was born in Effingham, Nov. 11 1902. and graduated from the Effingham high school in 1918. He received his bachelor's degree from KU, Lawrence, in 1926 and his masters degree from Pittsburg State College. He had also studied law at Washburn University In Topeka.
Following his graduation from KU Corrigan went to Powhattan to teach, and his long career as an educator and athletic coach started then. He has served as the high school principal for many years. He was married in 1939 to Miss Riley of Powhattan, a Brown County teacher. They were parents of two daughters.
Corrigan was a member of the “K" Club at Kansas University. Masonic orders and the board of directors of the Kansas State High School Activities Association.
He is survived by his wife of the home: daughters, Mrs. Robert, Cash, Omaha Neb., and Miss Mary, Jo Corrigan student at KU Lawrence; two sisters, Mrs, Roy Will, Dennison and Mrs. Dorothy Henderson. Fort Pierce, Fla.; and one nephew.
Memorial services will be held Friday night at 8 o'clock at the Powhattan high school. Funeral services will be Saturday morning at 10 o'clock at the Chaney Chapel in Horton with Rev. Harold Wolff of Hiawatha, officiating, assisted by. Rev. C. B. Dennison of Nortonville. Burial will be in the Powhattan cemetery. Pallbearers will include Norman Hall, John Schumann, Sam Finger, Carol Lloyd, Raymond Sunderland. and Johnny Wenger.
A Johnnie Corrigan memorial fund for the Powhattan high school has been started, and contributions may be sent to the school or Clarence Pollock, Powhattan.
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Mrs. W. L. Croxton sends the following memorial tribute to the late Johnnie Corrigan:
In a mansion up in heaven dwells and angel of today
Who left this old world a better place because he passed this way.
He shared everybody’s heartaches and shared everybody’s cares,
Surely since he’s gone there, even heaven seems more fair.
Survivors, there’s not many when you start to count his kin;
Mourners, there are hundreds, every body was his friend.
He lived his life for his girls and boys
They took him their triumphs, troubles, and joys.
He gave to his teaching everything he had to give
And lived the kind of kindly life we all wish we could live.
From the youngest to the oldest he answered everybody’s call;
From the richest to the poorest he left beloved by all.
We cannot, we will not say that he is gone
The lessons he taught will always live on,
They must have needed a teacher for those up in heaven
So the Superintendent of all the schools
Sent the call to our Johnnie Corrigan.
In a mansion up in heaven dwells and angel of today
Who left this old world a better place because he passed this way.
He shared everybody’s heartaches and shared everybody’s cares,
Surely since he’s gone there, even heaven seems more fair.
Survivors, there’s not many when you start to count his kin;
Mourners, there are hundreds, every body was his friend.
He lived his life for his girls and boys
They took him their triumphs, troubles, and joys.
He gave to his teaching everything he had to give
And lived the kind of kindly life we all wish we could live.
From the youngest to the oldest he answered everybody’s call;
From the richest to the poorest he left beloved by all.
We cannot, we will not say that he is gone
The lessons he taught will always live on,
They must have needed a teacher for those up in heaven
So the Superintendent of all the schools
Sent the call to our Johnnie Corrigan.
