Sheridan Press" of Wednesday, January 11, 1978
Hershall H. (Jack) Donahue, long-time resident of Sheridan, died Tuesday at the Sheridan VA Hospital.
He was born July 10, 1900 in Stratford, Iowa. He married Evelyn Currie, Nov. 23, 1927 in Sheridan. He was a retired collector for the Internal Revenue Service.
He was a member of the Presbyterian Church, Sheridan Lodge No. 8, AF&AM, Sheridan Scottish Rite Bodies, Kalif Shrine, Friendship Chapter No. 51, Order of Eastern Star, Elks Lodge, John Donald Garbutt Post American Legion, VFW of Thermopolis, World War One Barracks No. 3393 and National Association of Federal Employees. He was a Veteran of World War I.
Survivors include his wife, Evelyn, Sheridan; three sons: Duane C. Donahue, Sheridan; Byron (Bud) Donahue, Evergreen, Colo.; and J Thomas Donahue, Missoula, Mont.; two sisters, Dorothea Graff and Aulene Townsend, both of Sheridan; a brother, Roland, Sheridan; and six grandchildren.
Services are Friday at 1 p.m. at Champion funeral Home with the Rev. Robert Palmer officiating. Interment in the Masonic section of Sheridan Cemetery with Sheridan Lodge No. 8 in charge of graveside services.
One of the first of Sheridan's young men to go off to war, Hershall Donahue had just turned seventeen years old when he enlisted in the United States Navy. The son of former Kendrick Cattle Company ranch manager Jack Donahue, Hershall was evidently a fine specimen of manhood, The Sheridan Post noting that he "passed the physical examination with an almost perfect showing." After completing basic training, Hershall was assigned to the USS San Diego, where he served as a Fireman 1st Class. After the armored cruiser was sunk ten miles off the coast of New York's Fire Island in July 1918, Hershall was transferred to the USS Pueblo, an escort ship for convoys crossing the Atlantic. Hershall was honorably discharged from the Navy in March 1919. He returned to Sheridan, where he married, raised a family, and died in 1978.
(Letters Home - Navy www.trailend.org)
Sheridan Press" of Wednesday, January 11, 1978
Hershall H. (Jack) Donahue, long-time resident of Sheridan, died Tuesday at the Sheridan VA Hospital.
He was born July 10, 1900 in Stratford, Iowa. He married Evelyn Currie, Nov. 23, 1927 in Sheridan. He was a retired collector for the Internal Revenue Service.
He was a member of the Presbyterian Church, Sheridan Lodge No. 8, AF&AM, Sheridan Scottish Rite Bodies, Kalif Shrine, Friendship Chapter No. 51, Order of Eastern Star, Elks Lodge, John Donald Garbutt Post American Legion, VFW of Thermopolis, World War One Barracks No. 3393 and National Association of Federal Employees. He was a Veteran of World War I.
Survivors include his wife, Evelyn, Sheridan; three sons: Duane C. Donahue, Sheridan; Byron (Bud) Donahue, Evergreen, Colo.; and J Thomas Donahue, Missoula, Mont.; two sisters, Dorothea Graff and Aulene Townsend, both of Sheridan; a brother, Roland, Sheridan; and six grandchildren.
Services are Friday at 1 p.m. at Champion funeral Home with the Rev. Robert Palmer officiating. Interment in the Masonic section of Sheridan Cemetery with Sheridan Lodge No. 8 in charge of graveside services.
One of the first of Sheridan's young men to go off to war, Hershall Donahue had just turned seventeen years old when he enlisted in the United States Navy. The son of former Kendrick Cattle Company ranch manager Jack Donahue, Hershall was evidently a fine specimen of manhood, The Sheridan Post noting that he "passed the physical examination with an almost perfect showing." After completing basic training, Hershall was assigned to the USS San Diego, where he served as a Fireman 1st Class. After the armored cruiser was sunk ten miles off the coast of New York's Fire Island in July 1918, Hershall was transferred to the USS Pueblo, an escort ship for convoys crossing the Atlantic. Hershall was honorably discharged from the Navy in March 1919. He returned to Sheridan, where he married, raised a family, and died in 1978.
(Letters Home - Navy www.trailend.org)
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