John O’Hagan

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   nuala prince

   November 20, 2015 at 8:05 am

   So sorry to hear of his passing. Love and prayers to you all.

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   William Doogan

   November 20, 2015 at 4:10 pm

   So sorry to hear of your loss will miss seeing him at mass on Sunday

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   Eileen & Martin Rooney ( California )

   November 20, 2015 at 5:30 pm

   Johnny was one of the most calm, thoughtful and truly virtuous people I ever knew. An inspiration to all of us who knew and loved him. We knew his parents in Carva, County Donegal, themselves great people and so it goes on with his own fine family. I assume it’s hard being the son or daughter of the great man but you are a great family and thank you all for taking such great care of the great man. ( some might say there are to many greats in that sentence but I would disagree ) Eileen and I send our condolenses to all the O’Hagan family especially your Mom ( Liz ) and please let her know she is in our prayers. Every time I hear this Seamus Heaney poem, ( Heaney was rasied on a farm not to far from where Johnny ploughed his fields ) I can’t help but think of Johnny. May he Rest in Peace.

   My father worked with a horse-plough,
   His shoulders globed like a full sail strung
   Between the shafts and the furrow.
   The horse strained at his clicking tongue.

   An expert. He would set the wing
   And fit the bright steel-pointed sock.
   The sod rolled over without breaking.
   At the headrig, with a single pluck

   Of reins, the sweating team turned round
   And back into the land. His eye
   Narrowed and angled at the ground,
   Mapping the furrow exactly.

   I stumbled in his hob-nailed wake,
   Fell sometimes on the polished sod;
   Sometimes he rode me on his back
   Dipping and rising to his plod.

   I wanted to grow up and plough,
   To close one eye, stiffen my arm.
   All I ever did was follow
   In his broad shadow round the farm.

   I was a nuisance, tripping, falling,
   Yapping always. But today
   It is my father who keeps stumbling
   Behind me, and will not go away.

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      Cathy O'Hagan Carroll

      November 21, 2015 at 1:35 am

      Martin and Eileen thank you. Dad loved spending time with you. We all have been blessed to have had daddy and shared his life stories. He has left us all a wonderful legacy xx

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   Patricia Tokar-Foley

   November 20, 2015 at 7:13 pm

   So sorry for your Loss. Knew all the O’Hagan’s way back at St. Francis Borgia Grammer School Day’s. RIP

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   Sandra McNeela

   November 22, 2015 at 12:06 am

   My deepest sympathy to all the family.

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6. 

   Michael Mellon

   November 22, 2015 at 4:21 pm

   Uncle John’s IRISH Eyes are smiling down upon us! Heaven has another angel! God Bless the O’Hagan family! With Love Michael and Chyrl Mellon.

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   Bernard Jayne

   November 22, 2015 at 5:45 pm

   bless the whole family–R.I.P. Mr. O hagen

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8. 

   Myra Morales

   November 23, 2015 at 3:14 pm

   Sorry for your loss….May he Rest in Peace.

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9. 

   Jerry Landerholm

   January 1, 2016 at 2:42 am

   I had the pleasure of knowing John for many years. We worked together on the Milwaukee Railroad. What a great pipefitter
   he was and a craftsman beyond compare. He gave his all to the railroad and I believe he loved most of the time he spent
   there. When I began my career on the Milwaukee, I was working at Savanna, IL. My boss at that location often referred to “Johnny”
   O’Hagan as being one of the most competent railroad shop men that he had ever supervised. When I transferred to Bensenville,
   I met the famous Johnny O’Hagan and I wasn’t disappointed. I later became a supervisor and though I was John’s boss, he needed
   no boss. He took me under his wing and taught me much about the intricacies of keeping the Diesel House operating. It was indeed
   a pleasure to have John as coworker. It has been several years since I last had contact with him. I am so happy that he had a great
   long life. He deserved it. Needless to say, I was very sad to read that he had passed. There are several railroad guys who
   are better men because we had the opportunity to work with John O’Hagen. HIs family can be very proud of him and the legacy
   he created at the Milwaukee Road. They don’t make many John O’Hagans! I feel blessed that I knew him.

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   1. 

      Michelle O'Hagan

      January 6, 2016 at 7:51 pm

      Beautiful story, thank you for posting. 🙂

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   2. 

      Colleen McNally

      January 15, 2016 at 9:24 pm

      Jerry thank you for your kind words about our dad, John O’Hagan. He was so proud to be a part of the Milwaukee Railroad family and had a great fondness and shared his memories with us about his coworkers there right up until the end. Thank you for sharing your memories of Johnny with us. He was a very humble man, so it is a real gift to us to learn about how much he meant to others. He had a long fulfilled life and a very peaceful passing.
      Thank you again for taking the time to remember.
      God Bless
      The O’Hagans

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