Mrs. M'Taggart Rites to Be Held Tomorrow
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Fellow officers of Policeman John McTaggart will form a guard of honor when friends call to pay their last respects to Mrs. Ruth McTaggart tonight at the funeral home of Frank J. Leonard, 1451 Broadway.
Mrs. McTaggart, who was 46, died in West Jersey hospital Tuesday night while friends of her husband were staging their annual frolic in his honor at Eagles' Hall. Policeman McTaggart, known as "the charitable cop of the Sixth ward," was at his wife's bedside when she died.
Police Chief Arthur Colsey and Commissioner Mary W. Kobus have arranged for the guard of honor tonight and for a police escort for the funeral procession tomorrow. High requiem mass will be celebrated at 10 a. m. at the Church of the Sacred Heart. Burial will be in Calvary cemetery. Pallbearers have not yet been selected.