Danial Orville Maloney

1943 -

• Born	19 Nov 1943	Cleveland, Ohio
  Gender	Male
  Person ID	I4924	Johnson Hindin Tree
  Last Modified	28 Jun 2009

  
  

  Family	Janet Carol McCullough,   b. 5 Nov 1944, Battle Creek, Michigan
  Married	12 Aug 1967	St. Paul Lutheran Church, Drake's Mills, Pennsylvania
  Children	1. Michael Daniel Maloney,   b. 6 Jul 1969, Oil City, Venango Co., Pennsylvania   2. Christopher Jon Maloney,   b. 9 Jun 1972, Oil City, Venango Co., Pennsylvania   3. Danial Patrick Maloney,   b. 22 Jun 1982, Houston, Texas
  Family ID	F1996	Group Sheet

  
  

• Notes

  According to Janet Maloney (2009), Dan was born at Huron Road Hospital, Cleveland, Ohio, weighing 6 lbs 2 oz at birth. Mom was seriously ill with pneumonia following the birth. His father, Neil, was on the ore boat, the Horace S. Wilkinson at time of his birth. He flew to Cleveland on Northwest Airlines. Dan spent his years on the farm working in the slaughter house with his father, among other things. In January of 1963, an event happened which could have been a disaster, but turned out to be very lucky. There was a steer to be butchered and Dan had to help his Dad. They had just started when Neil went with Dan's brother, Bob, to help put the rest of the cattle into the barn for the night. He came back and said that there were some cattle missing. It was decided that Dan would continue with the butchering, and Bob and Neil would go see if they could find the missing cattle. Sister, Patty, was enlisted to help Dan any way she could. Shortly afterward, Neil came back to say that six head of cattle had walked out on the ice in French Creek, the ice gave way, and the cattle had fallen in and drowned. Neil called the Venango Volunteer Fire Dept. for help. The department had a boat which could be used to get the cattle out of the Creek. He then called neighbor, Raymond Tobin, and asked if he could bring his tractor and help pull the cattle out. Dan and Patty continued finishing up the steer they were working on, and the others went to get the cattle out of the Creek. They had apparently not been in the water for very long because they were still very warm. As each one was pulled out of the Creek, Neil stuck them so that they would bleed out and be ready to butcher. When they got all six head out of the water, they started bringing them up to the slaughter house. Dan and Patty just got the steer they were doing finished, and the first of the drowned cattle arrived. Dan and his Dad worked until 3:00 am in the morning to get the six head of cattle butchered. Unfortunately for Dan, he was scheduled to take a calculus final that same morning at Edinboro University. He did rather poorly on the test. His Dad, meanwhile, was trying to sell some of the beef because they did not have enough room to store it all. Up to that point, he had only sold a quarter to a neighbor. He was concerned about what they would do with the meat. Then, the phone began to ring, as people heard what happened. They called up to see if they could get some beef at a "discount". It seems that the Volunteer Firemen had gone bowling and told the people what had happened. People knew the quality of the beef that Maloney's produced, and they wanted to see if they could get some of the meat. By the end of the afternoon, all the beef from the six head of cattle had been purchased. Neil said that he could have drowned two more and sold them also. So, a possible disaster took a lucky turn for the Maloney's---except for Dan's poor Calculus exam. In 1964, he helped along with his Dad to unload the last grain boat to come into the Erie PA. grain elevators. Summers of 1964 and 1965, he worked for the Agricultural Extension in Meadville. His second cousin Linda Huber was a staff member in the office. After graduation from Edinboro, Dan went to Penn State for a year. Took a position with IBM in Erie, PA. He was married in August of 1967 to Janet McCullough. They lived in an apartment in Titusville, then moved to Oil City in 1969. After leaving IBM, he worked for United Data Services in Franklin, PA for nine years. In 1979, the family moved to Houston (Spring), TX. There he worked for Bank of the Southwest which became MBank. They became part of MTECH, which was bought by Electronic Data Services in 1986. A move to Plano, TX followed in 1988. After 17 years in Plano, a move was made to Frisco, TX in May of 2005. He is still with EDS which was bought by Hewlett Packard in 2008. Asked about the odd spelling of his name,either his mother or the nurse could not spell, or maybe Helen just wanted it to be different!