1928-2016

James Carroll “Jim” Duggan passed away on Friday, Oct. 14, 2016, after having received the Last Rites and the Apostolic Blessing. Jim was 88. He was born in Toledo, Ohio, on Monday, July 16, 1928, on the Feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel. He was born to devout Catholic parents, Charles Martin Duggan and Anne Ravena O’Neil. His Irish father was a railroad man and his Irish-Scotch mother was a country nurse and homemaker. Jim was raised in the Detroit, Mich., area as one of 11 children including: Bernard, Angela, Ignatius, Charles, Frank, Helen, Margaret, Theodore, Daniel and Joseph; one was a Jesuit priest and one a Dominican nun.

Mr. Duggan served with the U.S. Army at the end of the World War II. He married Joan Elizabeth Delaney in 1953. She survives him. He served as an auxiliary police officer in Howell, Mich., then moved his wife and six children to Los Angeles, Calif., in 1964. He was a parishioner at St. Andrew’s (Pasadena) and St. Luke’s (Temple City) Catholic churches and worked for many years as an insurance claims adjustor and private investigator for Carl Warren Company, the city of Pasadena, and his own business Golden State Claims Service. After raising seven children, he relocated his family to Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, in 1988. Jim worked alongside his wife as the baker and owner of Daylight Donuts, then as a real estate agent at Treaty Rock Realty until his retirement.

Jim was a raconteur renowned for his fund of Irish witticisms and anecdotes. His optimism, good cheer and sense of humor were well-known and appreciated by all who came to know him. Jim was a quintessential family man, completely devoted to the well-being of his wife and children, as well as a patriotic conservative American and a character, as befits someone who was the seventh son of a seventh son. He wrote poems, which he recited from memory, and his poetry has been on display at Casey’s Bar, a popular Irish pub in Los Angeles, for more than 30 years.

Besides his love for life and family, Jim’s dedication to his Catholic faith truly showed in his love for the Tridentine Latin Mass, his devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, and the Immaculate Heart of Mary. His profound devotion to the Most Holy Rosary is a legacy he has faithfully passed down through the generations. By the providence of God, he fittingly died in October, which is the Month of the Holy Rosary, faithfully wearing his brown scapular. Jim was truly a good and honorable man.

He was predeceased by his parents, his brothers and sisters, and one daughter, Helen (Groves). Besides his wife, Jim is survived by six children: Ignatius, Mary Lynn (Kenary), Bernard, Eugene, Andrew and Julie Anne (Thrasher); 29 grandchildren, 20 great-grandchildren; and numerous nieces and nephews.

Eternal gratitude to our devoted priests, Fr. Dennis Gordon and Fr. Daniel Nolan, F.S.S.P. for their regular visits, attentiveness and most especially providing the Sacraments. And to Mort Family and their staff at The Lodge for their loving kindness and unique care.

Donations in Jim’s memory may be made to the St. Joan of Arc Chapel building fund: St. Joan of Arc Church, 773 N. 11th St., Coeur d’Alene, ID 83814.

A heartfelt thank you to Yates Funeral Home, Coeur d’Alene, for caring for Jim and the family and arranging the services. A viewing is scheduled for 7 p.m. Friday, Oct. 21, 2016, at St. Joan of Arc Catholic Church, 773 N. 11th St., Coeur d’Alene, with a Rosary at 7 p.m. An all-night prayer vigil will follow the Rosary with the funeral Mass to take place at 11 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 22, 2016. Burial with military honors is planned following the funeral at Evergreen Cemetery, Post Falls, Idaho. Please visit Jim’s online memorial and sign his guest book at www.yatesfuneralhomes.com.