Family
Higgins was the brother of Margaret Sanger, famed campaigner for birth control, family planning and social reform. He is the great grandfather, of current Penn State running back Joe Suhey and former quarterback Kevin Suhey. He was the father-in-law of All-American guard and fellow College Football Hall of Fame inductee, Steve Suhey, and grandfather of Nittany Lion standouts Paul Suhey and Larry Suhey and former Chicago Bears fullback, Matt Suhey. The Higgins-Suhey family has been called the "first family" of Nittany Lion football, with 90 years of involvement with the Penn State football program. More recently, Paul's son Kevin and Matt's son Joe have played for the Nittany LIons (Higgins' great grandchildren). His youngest daughter Nancy Higgins married James J Dooley Jr, who was a second team All American Center in 1952 at Penn State. Their son James J Dooley III also played football at Penn State from 1979 to 1981 . Their other son Peter Dooley was on the Cross Country and Track & Field team at Penn State from 1982-84. Bob Higgin's eldest grandson, Robert Lyford, son of Higgins eldest daughter Mary Ann, played basketball at Penn State during the late 1960s.
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Famous quotes containing the word family:
“If you understand why a monkey in a family is always mocked and harassed, you understand why monks are rejected by all—both old and young.”
—François Rabelais (1494–1553)
“I acknowledge that the balance I have achieved between work and family roles comes at a cost, and every day I must weigh whether I live with that cost happily or guiltily, or whether some other lifestyle entails trade-offs I might accept more readily. It is always my choice: to change what I cannot tolerate, or tolerate what I cannot—or will not—change.”
—Melinda M. Marshall (20th century)
“I can only sign over everything,
the house, the dog, the ladders, the jewels,
the soul, the family tree, the mailbox.
Then I can sleep.
Maybe.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)