Rohan, Barry

1936 - 2013  (76 years)    Has 20 ancestors but no descendants in this family tree.

• Name	Rohan, Barry
  Born	12 Oct 1936	Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
  Gender	Male
  Education - High School	1955	Kaukauna, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA   [1]
  Kaukauna High School Class of 1955
  Military Service	Aft 1954
  US Army
  Died	31 May 2013	Grosse Pointe, Wayne, Michigan, USA
  Obituary	12 Jun 2013
  Appleton Post Crescent
  Barry Emmet Rohan, a newspaper reporter who worked at major US newspapers in Milwaukee, Chicago, Minneapolis and Detroit in a nearly 40 year career, died the morning of May 31, 2013 in Grosse Pointe, MI, after emergency surgery. He was 76. Born on October 12, 1936, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to Emmet and Renee Rohan, Barry would spend most of his youth and adolescence in and around Kaukauna, Wisconsin, where he graduated from Kaukauna High School. After graduation, he served in the army as a morse code radio operator in the Philippines. During that time he had many adventures including leaves in Hong Kong and Tokyo. After his discharge from the army, he attended and graduated from Marquette University in Milwaukee, with a degree in journalism. His first job was at the Waukesha Freeman and after a stint with the Milwaukee Sentinel, he became a copy editor and features writer at the Chicago Tribune. In Chicago he met his wife, Kathryn Hannan, where they married on June 18, 1966. Soon after the young couple moved to Minneapolis, where Barry was a reporter with the Minneapolis Tribune and later worked as a speech writer for Dayton-Hudson. It was in Minneapolis they had their two children, Elizabeth and Brendan. In 1975, the family moved to Grosse Pointe Woods, Michigan. Barry was a business news and science writer for the Detroit Free Press from 1975 until 1998 with a few lost years due to a contentious labor dispute. As a business reporter, he developed a column about Michigan's small businesses. In the 1980s, he researched and wrote an extensive family history that ultimately connected distant cousins in Ireland and the United States. Barry also wrote a definitive history of his grandfather, Barry Conners, a successful playwright and one of the first screenwriters in Hollywood. The article, 'My Grandfather's Trunk,' was published in an essay collection his daughter co-edited and played a part in a revival of Conners' 1925 comedy 'The Patsy' in 2011 by the Transport Group in New York City. After his retirement, he was a tutor in an adult literacy program. And together with his dog Pippi J, he visited patients at the Michigan Rebilitation Center and participated in the Reader Dog Program at the Grosse Pointe Library. He is survived by his wife of 46 years, Kathryn Rohan, two children, Elizabeth, of St Clair Shores, MI and Brendan, of New York City; grandson, Conor Curran; sister, Mary Anne Garrity, of Prairie Du Chien, WI and brothers Sean Rohan, of Kaukauna, WI and the late Michael Rohan. Donations in memoriam can be made to the Michigan Humane Society michiganhumane.org or The Southwest Solutions Adult Learning Lab swsol.org/adult_learning_lab. Published in Appleton Post-Crescent on June 12, 2013
  Person ID	I167945	1FamilyTree | HaleyKleckner37946
  Last Modified	20 Mar 2017

  
  

  Father	Rohan, Emmet,   b. 21 Apr 1908, Kaukauna, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA ,   d. 12 Jan 1970  (Age 61 years)
  Mother	Conners, Renee,   b. 7 Jun 1912, Fort Smith, Sebastian, Arkansas, USA ,   d. 19 Jun 2010, Appleton, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA  (Age 98 years)
  Family ID	F4787	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Hannan, Kathryn
  Last Modified	27 Jun 2014
  Family ID	F51132	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map	Load the map	Born - 12 Oct 1936 - Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA Education - High School - 1955 - Kaukauna, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA Died - 31 May 2013 - Grosse Pointe, Wayne, Michigan, USA  = Link to Google Earth
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  [S1247] Kaukauna High School 1955 Papyrus Yearbook, Kaukauna High School, (Kaukauna High School 1955 Papyrus Yearbook (see 1955 Senior Class list )). 167945