J.J. Cullinane, 64; Was Drum Major

Jeremiah J. Cullinane, 64 years old, of 1100 North avenue, a tool room foreman at the Singer factory, died yesterday afternoon in Alexian Brothers Hospital a short time after he suffered a heart attack.

Mr. Cullinane, a Singer Manufacturing Company employee forty-five years, was the first drum major of the Blessed Sacrament Fife, Drum and Bugle Corps and also belonged to the old Royal Fife, Drum and Bugle Corps. He won many prizes for his skill as a baton twirler.

His wife, Mrs. Johanna Coughlin Cullinane, is a teacher at Abraham Lincoln School, 14.

Born here, Mr. Cullinane was a son of the late Dominick and Ellen Healy Cullinane. He was an usher at Blessed Sacrament Church and a member of the Holy Name Society of the parish. He also belonged to the Singer Veterans' Association and the Singer Sick and Death Benefits Society. He was educated in St. Michael's School.

In addition to his wife, Mr. Cullinane is survived by three sons, Jerome W. Cullinane, student at St. Francis Seminary, Staten Island; James D. Cullinane, attending St. Vincent's Benedictine Seminary, Latrobe, Pa., and John F. Cullinane, student at St. Benedict's Preparatory School, Newark, and a sister, Miss Katherine Cullinane, of Elizabeth.

Mr. Cullinan was predeceased by a brother, Rev. James Cullinane, O.S.B., of St. Mary's Abbey, Newark, and two sisters, Sister M. Irene, O.S.B. and Sister M. Gabriel, O.S.B., of the Benedictine Mother House here.

The funeral will be conducted from the James J. Higgins & Son Mortuary, 414 Westminster avenue.