Submitted by: Dan Rich

 

Daniel Arthur McDonnell

Aug. 3, 1971 - Sept. 15, 2000

 

South Bend Tribune 1/20/1999

Daniel Arthur McDonnell, 29, of Leonardtown, Md., formerly of Granger, Ind., died on Friday night, Sept. 15, in an automobile/ motorcycle accident in Maryland. Daniel was with the United States Navy stationed at the Naval Air Station, Patuxent River, Md., as an Air Aviation Ordinance Man Second Class.

 

Daniel was born on Aug. 3, 1971, in South Bend and had been in Maryland for four years. He was a graduate of St. Monica's grade school and Penn High School Class of 1989.He is survived by his parents, Robert Ambrose Jr. and Carol Ann (Sniadecki) McDonnell of Granger; maternal grandparents, Frank and Blanche (Przyblski) Sniadecki of South Bend; paternal grandparents, Robert A. and Imogene R. (Devine) McDonnell of Rockford, Ill.; a sister, Colleen Gael Sager of Granger; a brother, Robert Ambrose III of Georgia, Del.; and by two nieces and a nephew.

 

Services will be held at 9:30 a.m. on Thursday, Sept. 21, in St. Pius X Catholic Church, Granger, with full United States Navy Military Rites to follow services at the church. Cremation will then take place.

Friends may call from 3 to 8 p.m. today, Sept. 20, in the HICKEY Funeral Home, 17131 Cleveland Road, where a prayer service will be said at 4 p.m. in the funeral home. The family has requested no flowers.