Located at 500 Westlake Avenue in Daly City since April of 1963, the family owned and operated Duggan s Serra Mortuary can trace its history in the funeral service business back to the 1880s in San Francisco. Sitting down in 2012, with Dan Duggan, the Mortuary s President and his brother Bill Duggan, Vice President and CFO, their memories go back easily to the man they both knew in their childhood, their grandfather William Duggan.
Born in 1879 in the town of Thurles, County Tipperary, Ireland, William arrived in the States alone at the age of 19, just in time to fight in the Spanish American War of 1898.
This was paying work, Dan said. So our grandfather enlisted.