Donohue, Francis T. “Frank”

PORT ST. LUCIE, FL. - Francis (Frank/Uncle Bun) Donohue, 89, of Port St. Lucie, FL and Glen Lake, NY, passed away on Easter Sunday. Frank is survived by his wife of 65 years Joyce Donohue and his four adult children Ted Donohue (Wendy) of Irvine, CA; Pattie Donohue (Paul Broome) of Sewalls Point, FL, Meg Donohue-Golden of Boynton Beach, FL and Michael Donohue of Port St Lucie, FL, and five grandchildren: Robert, Matthew, Kevin, Colleen, and Daniel. Frank was the eldest son of Francis and Mary Donohue of Cardinal Avenue, Albany and is also survived by many of his brothers and sisters Mary Lou, Grace, Jeannine, Lorraine, Joseph, William, and Ed and their families, and Sandy and Kirk Hutton.

Frank was an outdoorsman and avid fisherman, hiking and fishing the lakes and streams of Albany and the Adirondacks. He was a graduate of VI where he excelled in athletics. He went to war in the Pacific as a Seabee at 17 where he cut roads and landing strips under enemy fire, until a bomb blew up Frank and his bulldozer. After the Navy’s refusal to return him to the front, he returned to Albany where he obtained his BA and MS from Siena College while he worked as an agent for the US Treasury Department, Internal Revenue Service as a Revenue Agent and Special Agent Criminal Investigator. He served in both the Audit and Intelligence Divisions, and investigated Organized Crime, including as an undercover agent on Kennedy’s Organized Crime Special Task Force. As a Supervisor, he established and operated the Criminal Division Field office in Glens Falls before retiring from service in June 1982 and entering the private sector where he became a world renowned and respected international forensic accountant and financial investigator. He was long time member of the World Association of Detectives and an award winning member the Council of International Investigators. He was a member of Seabees’ Island 10 and a former Commodore the Saints and Sinners Yacht Club.

Frank was a devout Catholic who loved life, loved his wife and very extended family, and he in turn was loved by all.

A funeral Mass will be celebrated 10 a.m. Saturday, April 9, 2016 at the Church of St. Vincent de Paul, 900 Madison Avenue, Albany. Burial will follow the Mass in Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, East Greenbush.

Relatives and friends are invited and may also visit with Frank’s family on Friday, April 8, 2016 from 4 to 7 p.m. in the Daniel Keenan Funeral Home, 490 Delaware Avenue, Albany.