Four Catholic priests officiated at the December 2 funeral mass for Hugh Mulligan in St. Elizabeth Seton Church, where Hugh and his wife worshipped for years.
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RIDGEFIELD, Connecticut: Four Catholic priests officiated at the December 2 funeral mass for Hugh Mulligan in St. Elizabeth Seton Church, where Hugh and his wife worshipped for years.
Ten members of the Ridgefield Marine Corps League served as honor guard, a 12-gun salute was fired, “Taps” were played and a folded American flag was presented to his widow Brigid.
AP’s Richard Pyle wrote in an e-mail to friends, “Lest anyone wonder about such emphasis on military ceremony for a one–time Army sergeant [in Germany during World War II], it was a family request and surely would have been welcomed by Hugh himself as a gesture acknowledging, and befitting, his deep personal affinity for those he covered on battlefields in Vietnam and elsewhere.”
Mulligan, 83, one of AP’s most famous foreign correspondents and an OPC member, died November 26 a few weeks after he was diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer.
Among the 100 people who attended his funeral were OPC members Kelly Smith Tunney, Helen Swinton, Pat Milton and Edith Lederer, all of AP. AP president Tom Curley, also an OPC member, was unable to attend due to a prior commitment in London.