Edna Mae "Cookie" Deegan

Edna Mae (Cookie) Deegan, nee Halloran, passed away peacefully on June 8, 2023, at Bayside Manor in Keansburg, NJ. She was born on July 28, 1934, on East 24th Street, New York City. Edna attended Our Lady of The Scapular (Carmelite) Grammar School. In 1948, she began spending summers in Keansburg, at a bungalow on Fox Avenue. She is a 1952 graduate of Cathedral High School, NYC. She was a typist at The Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, NYC. In 1961, she moved to Keansburg to raise her growing family. From 1985-2010, she was an administrative assistant at Brookdale College, Lincroft Campus. Since 1961, Cookie has been a communicant of St. Ann's Parish, Keansburg. She served as a lecturer, Eucharistic Minister and member of the PTA. She enjoyed being involved with the CYO Passion Play. She was awarded Keansburg Woman of the Year for her successful fundraising efforts for the World War II Monument in Washington, DC, and The Statue of Liberty Restoration Project. She was very patriotic Cookie loved Jesus, America, New York City, Keansburg, Nashville, country music and traveling. In addition to many of the United States, she visited China, Greece, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Portugal, Turkey and the UK. She visited Catholic religious sites Fatima, Knock, Lourdes, and Medjugorje. She was an advocate of the arts. Cookie could often be seen walking around Keansburg, sitting on a bench reading a book on Beachway, or waiting for the NYC bus to see a play or walk around Manhattan. Edna was a student of Lois Wilson and promoted her principles. Cookie is predeceased by her parents Edna and Theodore Halloran, brother Edward, sisters Dolores Kolton, Jane Doherty and ex-husband Ross J. Deegan, Sr. She is survived by her sister Linda Halloran, children Cathleen Deegan (Peter Comey) Middletown; Maureen Deegan, Keansburg; Nora (Tommy Beattie) Hazlet; Teresa Deegan, Bordentown; Ross J. Deegan, Jr., Keansburg; Dolores (Jeff Harkness) Lawrenceville; grandchildren Nicole (Michael Capano); Michelle (Tyler Goldstein) Peter Deegan Comey and many nieces and nephews. The Deegan Family would like to thank the Cappadona Family and Staff of Bayside Manor for their dedicated service, kindness and professionalism. In lieu of flowers the family requests donations be made in Cookie's memory to the Keansburg Fire Departments or the Keansburg First Aid Squad.

Edna Mae "Cookie" Deegan

July 28, 1934 - June 8, 2023