Warren F. Donahue

Obituary

Warren F. Donahue of North Ft. Myers, Florida and Armonk, New York passed away on January 26, 2009.

Mr. Donahue, 87, has lived in North Ft. Myers for more than twenty-five years. In his working years he was a writer and advertising executive. He wrote feature articles for the New York Daily News in the 1950s and then moved into advertising, working in several major agencies. Finally, he established Donahue and Associates and for a number of years handled all of the advertising related to the art shows and theater presentations around the country sponsored by the Phillip Morris Company.

A New Yorker, he was born in the Bronx, the second of four children of Thomas R. Donahue, Sr. and Mary E Purcell. He graduated from Manhattan College in 1942. He served in WWII as a gunnery officer on a submarine chaser on Atlantic convoys and as executive officer of LST 559 through eleven first-day invasions in the Pacific theater. After the war, he earned his J.D. at New York University Law School.

For more than ten years he taught English-as-a-Second Language for adults in Ft. Myers. His late wife, Mildred, served for many years as the assistant director of Senior Services of St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church.

A scholar of history, last year he published a treatise on the rise and fall of democracies in the Western world, " The Remarkable Pattern of Western History ", which plotted the course of democratic development over the past 2,000 years.

He is survived by a brother, Thomas R., of Washington, D.C., 12 nieces and nephews and thirty-one grandnieces and grandnephews. Condolences may be viewed and offered at

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