Of Neptune, N.J. (formerly of Bayonne); on Wednesday, November 19, 2008; beloved son of the late Capt. Patrick Gallagher, Bayonne PD (Ret.) and Martha Gallagher; devoted brother of Patricia Gallagher Scanlon and the late Anna “Nancy” M. Gallagher; loving uncle of Patrick Scanlon, Jeanne Scanlon, Eileen Murphy, Kathleen Weber and John Scanlon; dear cousin of Maureen O’Donnell Pietruska. Funeral services were held from the O’BRIEN Funeral Home, Wall, N.J. Interment, St. Anne’s Cemetery, Wall, N.J.