Michael Joseph McShane, 58, formerly of La Grande, died Sept. 12 in Columbia, Md., of pancreatic cancer.
Memorial services were conducted Sept. 21 in Maryland. He will be buried with full military honors at Arlington National Cemetery Nov. 29.
Mr. McShane, a retired lieutenant commander in the United States Navy, was born Feb. 4, 1948, in Ontario and grew up in La Grande. He graduated from La Grande High School in 1966 and attended Eastern Oregon University before joining the Navy in 1968.
He married Isabel Kidd in 1972.
He retired from the Navy in 1998 and worked for Welkin-Nicholas Research as a systems engineering contractor until he died.
Survivors include his wife; a son, Lee, and his wife, Tara; daughter, Kelly; his mother, Margaret, of La Grande; brothers, Brian, Jeffrey and Gregory; sisters, Rebecca and Maureen; and other relatives. His father, Francis, and a brother, Kirk, died earlier.
Floyd Shenfield (1965)
October 09, 2006 12:00 am
Michael Joseph McShane, 58, formerly of La Grande, died Sept. 12 in Columbia, Md., of pancreatic cancer.
Memorial services were conducted Sept. 21 in Maryland. He will be buried with full military honors at Arlington National Cemetery Nov. 29.
Mr. McShane, a retired lieutenant commander in the United States Navy, was born Feb. 4, 1948, in Ontario and grew up in La Grande. He graduated from La Grande High School in 1966 and attended Eastern Oregon University before joining the Navy in 1968.
He married Isabel Kidd in 1972.
He retired from the Navy in 1998 and worked for Welkin-Nicholas Research as a systems engineering contractor until he died.
Survivors include his wife; a son, Lee, and his wife, Tara; daughter, Kelly; his mother, Margaret, of La Grande; brothers, Brian, Jeffrey and Gregory; sisters, Rebecca and Maureen; and other relatives. His father, Francis, and a brother, Kirk, died earlier.