Leo Edmund Drugan

Patrick Drugan Jr.
(1845-1926)

Elizabeth Jane Keeffe
(1853-1915)

Matthew Frasch
(1858-1937)

Mary Stiler
(1869-1928)

Edmund Drugan
(1879-1949)

Mary A. Frasch
(1887-1958)

Leo Edmund Drugan
(1907-1982)

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Spouses/Children:
1. Grace Violet Carothers

Leo Edmund Drugan ¹ ² ³ ⁴ ⁵ ⁶ ⁷ ⁸ ⁹

Born: 27 March 1907, Trempealeau, WI ¹ ² ³ ⁴ ⁵ ⁶ ⁸ ⁹ ¹⁰
Marriage (1): Grace Violet Carothers on 22 July 1935 in Trempealeau, WI ¹
Died: 3 December 1982, La Crosse, WI at age 75 ⁷ ⁸ ⁹
Buried: 6 December 1982, Saint Marys Cemetery, Winona, MN ⁹

bullet Cause of his death was Heart Attack / Stroke.

bullet General Notes:

According to the marriage announcement published in the Winona newspaper, Leo "attended a school of barbering from which he was graduated in 1931, and is now employed at the Otto Crivits barbershop."

(Source: Winona Republican-Herald, Thursday, July 25, 1935, Page: 7)
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Name:Leo E Drugan
Residence Date:01 Nov 1995-01 Jan 2004
Residence Place:Winona, Minnesota, United States
Birth Date:27 Mar 1907
Phone Number:(507) 454-5688
Phone Number Recorded Date:01 Jan 2004

Address:268 Carimona St
Address Continued:Winona, Minnesota 55987

Possible Relatives:Grace V Drugan
Record Number:651564905

Citing this Record:
"United States Public Records, 1970-2009," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/QJ6Q-SM3K : accessed 02 Nov 2014), Leo E Drugan, Residence, Winona, Minnesota, United States; a third party aggregator of publicly available information.
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bullet Birth Notes:

Name: Les Edmund Drugan
Gender: Male
Birth Date: 27 Mar 1907
Birthplace: Trempealeau, Trempealeau, WI
Race: White
Father's Name: Edmund Drugan
Father's Birthplace: Trempealeau, Trempealeau, WI
Mother's Name: Mary Trash
Mother's Birthplace: Arcadia, Trempealeau, WI

Citing this Record
"Wisconsin Births and Christenings, 1826-1926," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XRLF-JH9 : 11 February 2018), Edmund Drugan in entry for Les Edmund Drugan, 27 Mar 1907; citing Trempealeau, Trempealeau, WI, reference CN 2713; FHL microfilm 1,305,596.
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bullet Death Notes:

Name: Leo Drugan
Given Name: Leo
Surname: Drugan
State: Wisconsin
Residence Place: Minnesota
Last Place of Residence: Winona, Minnesota
Previous Residence Postal Code: 55987
Age: 75
Birth Date: 27 Mar 1907
Death Date: Dec 1982

Citing this Record
"United States Social Security Death Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JRG6-DZS : 22 August 2020), Leo Drugan, Dec 1982; citing U.S. Social Security Administration, Death Master File, database (Alexandria, Virginia: National Technical Information Service, ongoing).
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bullet Noted events in his life were:

• He appeared on the 1910 US Census in Trempealeau, WI on 16 April 1910. ⁴

1910 US Census
Sheet 3B, District 173, Family 78
Trempealeau, Trempealeau County, Wisconsin
Home owned, no mortgage
Leo E. Drugan..Son..3..WI

(Living with parents.)
.

• He appeared on the 1920 US Census in Trempealeau, WI on 9 January 1920. ⁵

1920 US Census
Sheet 5B, District 219, Family 145, Roll 2018
Trempealeau, Trempealeau County, Wisconsin
Grove Street
Leo E. Drugan..Son..12..WI

(Living with parents.)
.

• He appeared on the 1930 US Census in Trempealeau, WI on 30 April 1930. ⁶

1930 US Census
Sheet 2B, District 24, Family 51, Roll 2614
Trempealeau, Trempealeau County, Wisconsin
Home owned, $2000
Leo Drugan..Son..23..WI

(Living with parents.)
.

• He appeared on the 1940 US Census in Trempealeau, WI on 7 April 1940. ¹

1940 US Census
Sheet 3A, District 61-24, Family 62, Roll 4529
Trempealeau, Trempealeau County, Wisconsin, United States
Last Place of Residence: Same House
Home rented, $5
Leo E. Drugan..Head..33..WI..12th grade..Village Barber Shop..earned $450 in 1930

(Living with wife.)
.

• His obituary was published in the Winona Daily News on 5 December 1982 in Winona, MN.

⁹ Leo E. Drugan, 75, 268 Carimona St., died Friday evening, Dec 3, 1982, at Lutheran Hospital, LaCrosse, WI.

He was born March 27, 1907, in Trempealeau, WI to Edmund and Mary (Frasch) Drugan. He married Grace V. Carothers July 22, 1935 in Trempealeau.

He worked as a bridge engineer for the Chicago Burlington Railroad retiring in 1972. He was a Winona resident since 1942,and a member of St. John Church and the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way.

Survivors are his wife, one daughter, Mrs. Michael (Marsha) Womble, Winona, and two granddaughters, Lisa and Gina Womble. His parents and one sister has died.

Services will be at Watkowski Funeral Home at 10 a.m. Monday followed by a 10:30 a.m. service at St. John Church. The Rev. Thomas Jennings will officiate. Burial will be at St. Mary Cemetery. Friends may call at 2 to p.m. at 7-9 today at the funeral home with the rosary service set for 7:30 p.m.

Pallbearers will be Thomas Riska, Ross Drussell, Emil Pappe, Bill Rudnik, Dave Pendelton, and Bernard Stockhausen.

(Source: Winona Daily News, 5 Dec 1982)
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• He was buried on 6 December 1982 in the Saint Marys Cemetery in Winona, MN.

Crypt I 71-72

Find A Grave Memorial #39220484
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Leo married Grace Violet Carothers, daughter of Raymond Thomas Carothers and Ruth May Aitken, on 22 July 1935 in Trempealeau, WI.¹ (Grace Violet Carothers was born on 26 January 1917 in Nelson, WI,¹ ¹¹ ¹² died on 9 January 1996 in Winona, MN ¹² and was buried after 9 January 1996 in Saint Marys Cemetery, Winona, MN ¹².)

bullet Noted events in their marriage were:

• They resided at 268 Carimona Street in Winona, MN.
¹³ Name:Leo E Drugan
Residence Date:01 Nov 1995-01 Jan 2004
Residence Place:Winona, Minnesota, United States
Birth Date:27 Mar 1907
Phone Number:(507) 454-5688
Phone Number Recorded Date:01 Jan 2004

Address:268 Carimona St
Address Continued:Winona, Minnesota 55987

Possible Relatives:Grace V Drugan
Record Number:651564905

Citing this Record:
"United States Public Records, 1970-2009," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/QJ6Q-SM3K : accessed 02 Nov 2014), Leo E Drugan, Residence, Winona, Minnesota, United States; a third party aggregator of publicly available information.

• They appeared on the 1940 US Census in Trempealeau, WI on 7 April 1940. ¹

1940 US Census
Sheet 3A, Roll 4529, District 61-24, Family 62
Trempealeau, Trempealeau County, Wisconsin, United States
Last Place of Residence: Same House
Home rented, $5
Leo E. Drugan..Head..33..WI..12th grade..Village Barber Shop..earned $450 in 1930
Grace V. Drugan..Wife..23..WI..8th grade..Housewife
Harold C. Lunde..Lodger..28..WI..4 years college..Music Teacher, Public School..earned $1100 in 1939
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• They resided at 549 E. Howard in 1941 in Winona, MN.
1941 Winona Directory:
LEO & GRACE DRUGAN
Occupation: Railroad
Residence: 549 E. Howard, Winona, Minnesota.

bullet Marriage Notes:

Leo and Grace were married in Trempealeau, WI and lived there for about 6 years while he worked as a barber there. In about 1941, they moved to Winona where he took a job as a bridge engineer for the Chicago Burlington Railroad until his retirement in 1972.
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1 1940 U.S. census, population schedule, Trempealeau, Trempealeau County, Wisconsin, United States, enumeration district (ED) 61-24, sheet 3A, household 62, Leo Edmund Drugan and Grace Violet Carothers; index and images, FamilySearch.org (accessed 2 Nov 2014); citing National Archives and Records Administration microfilm T627, roll 4529.

2 "Wisconsin, Birth Index, 1820-1907," index, FamilySearch.org (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1946789 : accessed 2 Nov 2014), Name: Leo E Drugan; Event Date: 27 Mar 1907; Event Place: Trempealeau, Wisconsin.

3 "Wisconsin Births and Christenings, 1826-1926," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1708703 : accessed 2 Nov 2014), Les Edmund Drugan, 27 Mar 1907; citing Trempealeau, Trempealeau, WI, reference CN 2713; FHL microfilm 1,305,596.

4 1910 U.S. census, population schedule, Trempealeau, Trempealeau County, Wisconsin, enumeration district (ED) 173, sheet 3B, dwelling 78, family 78, Edmund Drugan and Mary A. Frasch; index and images, FamilySearch.org (accessed 19 Oct 2014); citing National Archives and Records Administration microfilm T624.

5 1920 U.S. census, population schedule, Trempealeau, Trempealeau County, Wisconsin, enumeration district (ED) 219, sheet 5B, family 145, Edmund Drugan and Mary A. Frasch; index and images (accessed 2 Nov 2014); citing National Archives and Records Administration microfilm T625, roll 2018.

6 1930 U.S. census, population schedule, Trempealeau, Trempealeau County, Wisconsin, enumeration district (ED) 24, sheet 2B, family 51, Edmund Drugan and Mary A. Frasch; index and images, FamilySearch.org (accessed 2 Nov 2014); citing National Archives and Records Administration microfilm T626, roll 2614.

7 "Wisconsin Death Index, 1959-1997," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1947978 : accessed 2 Nov 2014), Name: Leo E Drugan; Event Date: 03 Dec 1982; Event Place:, Wisconsin.

8 "United States Social Security Death Index," database, FamilySearch (accessed 25 October 2020), Leo Drugan, Dec 1982; citing U.S. Social Security Administration, Death Master File, database (Alexandria, Virginia: National Technical Information Service, ongoing).

9 Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/ : accessed 2 Nov 2014), http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=39220484.

10 "Minnesota, County Deaths, 1850-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/2185953 : accessed 25 Dec 2019), Irene V Newfeldt, Rochester Township, Olmsted, Minnesota, United States; citing Death, multiple county courthouses, Minnesota.

11 Robert Westphal Jr., "Westphal Family History," database, RootsWeb (http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=westphal : accessed 27 Apr 2013).

12 Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/ ), http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=38779885.

13 "United States Public Records Index," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2199956 : accessed 2 Nov 2014), Name: Leo E Drugan; Possible Relatives: Grace V Drugan; Address: 268 Carimona St; Address Continued: Winona, Minnesota 55987.

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