Submitted by: Steve Floor

DONAHUE

Jan. 13, 1939-Dec. 26,1992

Maj. Gene M. Donahue

Services for Maj. Gene M. Donahue, 53, of Wrightstown, N.J., formerly of South Bend, who died at 12:02 a.m. Saturday in Graduate Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, will be at 10 a.m. Tuesday in Christ the King Catholic Church.  Burial will be in St. Joseph Valley Memorial Park, Granger.  Friends may call from 6 to 8 p.m. Monday in Welsheimer Funeral Home North, 17033 Cleveland Road, where a wake prayer will be at 7:30 p.m.

Maj. Donahue retired as a major from the Air Force after 30 years of service and was employed as chief of data processing for Base 10 Systems, Lawrenceville, N.J.  He was born Jan. 13, 1939, in South Bend [Indiana]. 

He is survived by a daughter, Anna M. Donahue at home; three sons, Ronald S. and Charles L., both of Hot Springs, Ark., and Richard L. of Fort Hood, Texas; three grandchildren; and his fiance, Sharon Rajski of Niles.  He was a graduate of St. Joseph's High School.

(South Bend Tribune Sec. C5 Thursday, December 31, 1992)