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Obituaries Kevin McManus, decorated Vietnam veteran, raised in Babylon, at 65
He graduated from St. Joseph Elementary in Babylon in 1956, Bishop Loughlin High School in Brooklyn in 1960 and the U.S. Air Force Academy in 1964. He went on to pilot F4's with the 92nd Tactical Fighter's Squadron in England and the 390th TFS at the Danang Air Base in Vietnam. His plane was shot down in North Vietnam and he was captured with his USAFA classmate Edward J. Mechenbier and held for five years and eight months. After coming home in 1973 and being told his injuries would not allow him to fly again, he moved to Durham, North Carolina with his wife, Mary Jane, and graduated from Duke University. For a time he worked for Fairchild Republic and moved to Setauket until 1979 when the family moved to Herndon, Virginia and he took a job at the Pentagon in the Department of Defense. After retiring from the Air Force in 1984, he went on to work for a program management firm at AT&T and finally retired at 1999. According to his family, he loved to read, garden and collect baseball cards and stamps. He was also a talented carpenter who had a passion for Italy. Mr. McManus leaves behind his wife of 41-years, Mary Jane (nee Cahill) of Oakton, Virginia; his children: Katherine Mary of Arlington, Virginia, Bryan Jude and Marie Therese of Arlington, Virginia, John Francis and Mary Elizabeth Seton of Oakton, Virginia and Mary of Eagle, Colorado; his siblings: Karen Julia of Alexandria, Virginia, Robert Philip of Massapequa and Christopher George of Washington, D.C. He was predeceased by his son: Kevin Roderic (Rory). He reposed at the Everly Funeral Home in Fairfax, Virginia on August 11, 2008. A Funeral Mass was held August 12, 2008 at St. Timothy Church in Chantilly, Virginia . Burial, with military honors, to be held at Arlington National Cemetery on October 16, 2008 at 11 a.m.
Donations in Mr. McManus' name can be sent to Capital Hospice, 6565 Arlington Blvd., Suite 500, Falls Church, Virginia 22042 or Vietnam Veterans Legacy Foundation, Box 95000-1655, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19195-1655 or the National League of Families of American Prisoners of War & Missing in Action in Southeast Asia, 1005 North Glebe Road, Suite 170, Arlington, Virginia 22201 or any reputable organization established to benefit the U.S. Military veterans of the war on terror.
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