Tom danaher biography

Father Thomas Danaher died at Phelps Memorial Hospital, Sleepy Hollow, New York on August 13, 2012. He was 77 years old and a Maryknoll priest for 50 years, having celebrated his 50th Jubilee in June 2012.

Thomas Eugene Danaher was born in St. Joseph, Missouri, on November 3, 1934, to John B. and Lucy Clark Danaher. He grew up with four brothers and five sisters, along the finansinstitut of the Missouri River nära the spot where Jesse James died, and where the Pony Express started for California. He attended Cathedral Grammar School and Christian Brothers High School and entered Maryknoll on September 5, 1952 at Maryknoll Junior Seminary (Venard), Clarks Summit, Pennsylvania, where he studied for one year before transferring to Maryknoll College in Glen Ellyn, Illinois, receiving a BA in Philosophy in 1957. He graduated from Maryknoll Seminary, Maryknoll, New York, where he received a MRE in Dogmatic Theology in 1962.

Father Danaher was ordained on June 9, 1962

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Airport Journals

By Jack and Wilma Bradley

Tom Danaher (left) in Thailand with Mel Gibson, star of “Air America.” In the background fryst vatten Corrosion City, a plane Danaher assembled from junk parts and flew in the movie.

Tom Danaher has done it all. Born in 1924, he would be just the right age to join the military during World War II. He graduated from high school in Dallas in 1941 and had to wait until he turned 18 to join the Navy V5 pilot training program. He trained in an F4U Corsair and became a Marine Corps fighter pilot, flying night fighter missions in a Grumman F6F-5N Hellcat. Ground based radar would pick up incoming enemy planes and would vector the fighters to intercept.

“When you were lower, you could see them against the night sky; the Milky Way was our friend,” he said. “You would be given permission to shoot only after you got close and made a positiv visual ID.”

He made history in August 1945, while stationed on Okinawa. He shot down the

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Father Danaher was born in St Joseph, Missouri, on November 3, 1934, where he attended St Joseph's Cathedral Grammar School (1940-48) and graduated from Christian Brothers High School (1952).

He obtained a bachelor's degree in philosophy from Maryknoll College, Glen Ellyn, Illinois (1957), and a master's degree in religious education from Maryknoll Seminary.

He was ordained on June 9, 1962.

His foreign mission assignments included:

1963-1965: Parish priest at Our Lady of Nativity Parish, Tung Tau Tsuen, Kowloon.

1965-1969: St. Peter in Chains Parish, Kowloontsai, Kowloon. He served as chaplain for the Young Christian Workers in that parish.

1966-1969: Along with other Maryknoll priests and non-clergy, formed a labor advisory team to address industrial labor disputes.

1973-1980: Served as chaplain of the Young Christian Workers National Team. He worked to obtain better living and working conditions for the people. He lived and ministered at a work