Obituaries: Helen Margaret Donahue
Helen Margaret Donahue passed peacefully from this life on Monday, December 19, 2011 at Elant Nursing Home. She was 89 years young. Helen was born to Irish immigrants in Brooklyn, NY on September 3, 1923.
Her early years were spent with her large family. She was stricken with rheumatic fever at age 16, but this never held her back from trying everything she wanted to do. She met and married John Patrick Donahue during World War II. They moved to Long Island, raising sons, John Patrick and Kevin Michael and daughter, Eileen Mary. John's job moved them to New Windsor in 1961. They lived in New Windsor for nine years, then moved to Petaluma, CA in 1970. Helen learned to drive and loved to "roam the roads" in "Cally."
Upon John's retirement from the USAF, they returned to Cornwall, where Helen lived the remainder of her life. Helen loved ceramics, painting "Hum-Hels," singing, bingo, and going to Atlantic City with her sister, Anne.
She is predeceased by her husband, John; son, John Patrick Donahue, and sister, Madeline. She is survived by her loving children, son, Kevin Donahue and his wife, Kathleen, of Cornwall, and daughter, Eileen and her husband Tim, of Salisbury Mills; daughter-in-law, Kathy Ryan Donahue, of Perrysburg, OH. She had six grandchildren: Alison Kehner and her husband, George of Haddonfield NJ, Michael Donahue and his wife, Alison of Westwood, MA, Laura Hamel and her husband, Sean of Philadelphia, PA, Meghan and Emily Zwart of Cornwall, NY and Sarah Ryan Donahue of Perrysburg OH, and six great-grandchildren: Samantha, Katie and Madeline Kehner, Nolan and Maeve Hamel and William Donahue. She is also survived by her sister, Anne Baird of Middle Village, Queens, and brothers, Michael and John Farrell.
Helen would like to thank the family and staff of Elant Nursing home in Fishkill for their constant care and support while she lived with them.
Friends and relatives may call from 69 p.m. on Thursday December 22 at Quigley Bros. Funeral Home, 337 Hudson St., Cornwall-On-Hudson, NY 12520. www.quigleybros.com. Mass of Christian Burial will be 1 p.m. on Friday, December 23 at St. Thomas of Canterbury Church, 340 Hudson St., Cornwall-On-Hudson, NY 12520. Burial to follow in St. Thomas Cemetery, Cornwall, NY.
In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the Perrysburg Schools Foundation attn. John P. Donahue Memorial Scholarship Fund, PO Box 504, Perrysburg, OH 43552.
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