GARIGAN, Donald W.

The White Mountain Independent, Show Low, Arizona - 03/05/2004 Donald W. Garigan, 75, Nutrioso, died at his home Feb. 29, 2004. He was born in Tucson, Oct. 15, 1928. Donald's parents homesteaded 640 acres on the eastside of Tucson. The small wood framed house in which they lived, were it standing today, would be at Broadway and Sarnoff. He graduated Tucson High School and attended the University of Arizona. He was also a member of the Tucson Boys Choir. Donald and wife, Carmen and family ranched in the 1950s and early 1960s and staged many rodeos, dubbed the "Garigan's Rodeo" for area cowboys near their home. He was a Locomotive Engineer for the Southern Pacific Railroad for 38 years. He moved to Nutrioso in 1978 and after retirement built a home, a mobile home park and a restaurant. Preceding him in death were his parents Philip T. Garigan, Sr and Mary Gilligan Garigan; his sister Mary Elizabeth Bialk; brothers Philip T. Garigan, Jr. (Mary Jane) and (twin) brother Byron W. Garigan, Sr. His survivors include his wife of 54 years Carmen Sue; sons Michael D. Garigan (Marie), and Peter D. Garigan; daughters Suzy Alba (Tony), Antoinette White (Mark) and Tina Soderberg (Roger); 10 grandchildren and two great grandchildren. Also his brother-in law Bernard Bialk, sister-in-laws Ann Marie Barry (Wayne) and Celeste Garigan as well as numerous nephews and nieces and his faithful companion, "Toby." A funeral mass will be at 11 a.m. Friday, March 5 at St. Helena's Catholic Church, on Hwy. 180 in Alpine. Jewkes Mortuary is in charge of arrangements.