Henry M. Donahoe

03/04/2006

Attorney Henry M. Donahoe, 81, of 3 Whiteholm Road died Saturday at Providence Care Center in Lenox, where he had resided since October 2002. Born in Pittsfield on July 13, 1924, son of Charles J. and Hazel Delarue Donahoe, he attended St. Mary's School and Lee High School and was a 1942 graduate of the former Cranwell Preparatory School. He attended Holy Cross College for one semester before being drafted into the Army Air Force at Wofford College in Spartanburg, S.C., where he was appointed acting flight sergeant of his squadron because of his scholastic standing and leadership. After graduation from Wofford, he was assigned to Maxwell Field, Ala., for preflight school for pilots and then to Lodwick School of Aeronautics Inc. in Lakeland, Fla. He served with the 403rd Troop Command, 65th Division, in Morotai, Japan, in Australia and in Manila, the Philippines, as a navigator and pilot aboard a bomber. He was discharged with the rank of second lieutenant. He received his bachelor's degree in business administration from Boston University and his law degree from Boston College Law School in 1951. Mr. Donahoe practiced law from the Park Building until retiring in 2003. He was appointed the first town counsel in Lee in 1954 and served as town moderator for many years. He was a communicant of St. Mary's Church and a former member of its parish council. During the 1950s, he was an organizer of the Lee Community Basketball League for St. Mary's. He served as fund drive chairman of the Lee Visiting Nurse Association and as both legal counsel and as a member of the board of directors for Lee Bank. He leaves two nephews, Charles J. Donahoe of Brooklyn, N.Y., and Thomas C. Donahoe of Chatham, N.J. FUNERAL NOTICE -- Services for Henry M. Donahoe will be Wednesday, March 8, at 9:15 from Kelly Funeral Home, with a Liturgy of Christian Burial at 10 at St. Mary's Church. Burial will follow in St. Mary's Cemetery. Visiting hours at the funeral home will be tomorrow from 4 to 7. Memorial donations are suggested from the Lee Youth Association or Providence Care Activity Fund in care of the funeral home. Henry also leaves his nephew Charles' wife, Ann Marie, and their daughter, Nora, and his nephew Thomas' wife, Patricia, and their children, Andrew, Teresa, Peter and John, and his special friend, Mary Serra of Lee, and all of his caregivers. He was predeceased by his brother and sister-in-law, Charles and Mary Donahoe.

Obituaries

Celebrating Lives & Legacies

Henry M. Donahoe

Memorials