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Some on the list may remember Dan...

Tnx to N1NH for forwarding the obit.

--- Jim Belanger <n1nh at beltronics.net> wrote:

To: <nts-ean at yahoogroups.com>
From: "Jim Belanger" <n1nh at beltronics.net>
Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 14:09:29 -0400
Subject: [NTS-EAN] FW: Daniel A. Mac Donald, Nashua
 


Jim Belanger
Hollis, NH
N1NH at beltronics.net
 
 

Daniel A. Mac Donald, Nashua 
Longtime ham radio operator 

Published: Tuesday, May. 9, 2006

Daniel Arthur Mac Donald, 87, died Tuesday, May 2, 2006, at the
Hunt-Pavilion in Nashua after a long battle with cancer.

Mr. Mac Donald was born July 16, 1918, in Rockingham, village of
Bellows Falls, Vt., son of the late Harry and Winifred (Belknap) Mac
Donald.

His family lived in Lexington, Mass., for 30 years. He moved to the
Hunt Community in Nashua in 1988.
 
He was the widower of Virginia (Beattie) Mac Donald.

Mr. Mac Donald retired from Civil Service at ESC-Hanscom Air Force
Base. In the 1960s, he served in the Civil Defense and Civil Air Patrol
and traveled on business trips overseas. Throughout his career he
worked in the electronics field.

He was a longtime ham radio operator-W1PEX, and learned to use
computers. He was a Mason and Shriner.

Mr. Mac Donald was a Navy veteran who sailed on the USS North Hampton
in the Hawaiian territory. He re-enlisted in 1942, and served during
World War II as an instructor at Fleet Radio School. In 1944 he was NCO
in charge of Joint Communications on the Island of Tinian.

He was a member of The First Church of Nashua.

Mr. Mac Donald graduated from high school in 1937. He graduated from
the University of Vermont with an engineering degree on the GI Bill.

Besides his wife and parents, he was predeceased by a brother, John Mac
Donald; and a sister, Emma Mac Donald.
 
Survivors include two sons and a daughter-in-law, Jim Mac Donald of
Derry, and Neal and Susan Mac Donald of Westford, Mass.; four
grandchildren, Sharon, Jeffery, Jason and Shelley Mac Donald; two
sisters, Cara Olds and Margaret Varney, and many nieces and nephews.

The Cremation Society of New Hampshire in Manchester is in charge of
arrangements. 

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