M. Cecelia Cahill

DENNIS — M. Cecelia (Rogan) Cahill, 98, of Dennis, formerly of Chestnut Hill, died at Eagle Pond Nursing Center on July 20, 2008. She was the wife of the late John A. Cahill.

"Cele," as she was affectionately known by family and friends, was a graduate of Roxbury Memorial High School. She attended Boston Teachers College and received her degree from Boston University. During World War II, she joined the USO and was stationed at a submarine base in Key West, Fla. She also traveled with the USO to many military bases, entertaining the troops.

For many years she taught in the Boston school system.

She was an avid golfer and former member of the Charles River Country Club in Newton for many years, where she won many trophies. In her eighties, she made a hole-in-one at Dennis Pines Golf Club in Dennis, where she was a respected member.

She was loved by her family and will be missed by all.

She is survived by her sister, Agnes (Rogan) Jackson of Watertown; brother Sherman Rogan of Reading; 14 nieces and nephews; and many grandnieces and grandnephews, and great-grandnieces and great-grandnephews. She was the sister of the late Paul Rogan, John Rogan, Elizabeth (Rogan) MacDermott, and Alice (Rogan) Behen.

A funeral Mass will be celebrated at Our Lady of the Cape, 468 Stoney Brook Road (off Route 6A), Brewster, at 11 a.m. on Friday, July 25. Family and friends are invited. Interment is private. Remembrances can be given in her name to the Perkins School for the Blind, 175 North Beacon St., Watertown, MA 02472. Arrangements are by Chapman, Cole & Gleason Funeral Home in Falmouth. For online guest book and directions, visit www.ccgfuneralhome.com.