Frederick W. Hagan, Col. (1954)

HAGAN, ANDERSON, BATES, FALKENHAINER, CURTIS, CARLSON

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Winterset Madisonian-Winterset, Iowa
February 17, 1954; p. 7

COL. FREDERICK HAGAN DIES IN CALIFORNIA

Funeral services were held Feb. 1 at San Francisco for Col. Frederick W. Hagan, a graduate of the Truro high school who had served many years as a chaplain in the U. S. army.

Colonel Hagan was a native of Custer county, Nebraska, where he was born July 11, 1888, a son of William C. and Mary Anderson Hagan. His early life was spent in Warren and Clarke counties in Iowa. After graduating from Truro high school, he taught rural school near here, and attended Highland Park college in Des Moines, graduating from Des Moines university in 1916.

He served as a student minister from 1912 to 1916, serving the last two years at Truro. In 1916, he entered the Yale Divinity school at New Haven, Conn., and enlisted in the U. S. army in 1917. He was commissioned a first lieutenant and chaplain in 1918. He went overseas with the 91st division and saw action in the St. Mihiel, Argonne and Ypres Lys offensives. After the war he re-entered the Yale Divinity school, graduating in 1921. He served Congregational churches in Huntington, W. Va., Oakland, Calif., and Bay Shore, Long Island, New York.

In 1930 he was commissioned as a chaplain in the regular army serving until 1944 when he retired with the rank of colonel.

Surviving are his wife, the former Elsie Bates; a son, John W. Hagan; and three grandchildren, all living in California. He also leaves four brothers and three sisters. They are: Irwin Hagan of Des Moines, Glenn Hagan of Fruita, Colo,, Paul Hagan of Omaha, Hugh Hagan of Storm Lake, Mrs. Fred Falkenhainer of Des Moines, Mrs. Glenn Curtis of Alta and Mrs. Rothar Curtis of Galesburg, Ill.