June 18, 1999
Edmund J. Fitzgerald, a member of the Class of 1928, died
on June 18, 1999 at his home in Falls Church, Va. Mr. Fitzgerald,
who was 100 at the time of his death, had been recognized
as the oldest
living Holy Cross alumnus.
He was employed by the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad and the New
England Telephone Company from 1928-1936. He entered government service in Washington,
D.C., in July 1936-first as an internal auditor of the Reconstruction Finance
Corporation and later as a member of the Interstate Commerce Commission, retiring
in 1967. He was an Army veteran, serving as a captain in Europe during World
War II
with Allied Force Headquarters.
Mr. Fitzgerald became active in the Holy Cross Club of the District of Columbia
in 1948. He was considered a founder, as well as serving as president and as
director of the Club.
He received the Club's Man of the Year award in 1959 and in 1967. He was still
attending annual receptions in the late 1980s.
Mr. Fitzgerald served as a board member of the General Alumni Association
and a member of the Alumni Senate since 1963. A 1968
recipient of the "In Hoc Signo" award, he was a class agent with 46 years of
consecutive giving to the Holy Cross Fund through 1999. Until ill health interfered,
he and his devoted wife, Peggy, never missed a reunion.
Mr. Fitzgerald is survived by Peggy, his wife of 27
years; two stepsons; seven
grandchildren and 14 great-grandchildren.
His first wife, Paulette, died in 1962.
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