http://www.newsday.com/news/local/nassau/ny-likane1312646802apr12,0,169056.story
Ex-Grumman test pilot, executive Thomas Kane Jr. dies
BY REID J. EPSTEIN | reid.epstein@newsday.com
10:23 PM EDT, April 12, 2009
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Tom Kane traveled around the world on Navy ships and selling military aircraft for Grumman Corp., but he was always a Long Islander at heart. Kane, 75, died Saturday after a brief battle with lung cancer at Christa House in West Babylon.
Born Aug. 13, 1933, in Hempstead, Thomas Joseph Kane Jr. graduated from Hempstead High School and briefly attended Manhattan College in the Bronx before moving to Bay Shore and starting work at his father’s import-export company on Wall Street.
While commuting to work on the 7:33 a.m. Long Island Rail Road train from Babylon, Kane met Jane McGinnis, who took the train to an uptown ad agency.
On Oct. 20, 1956, they married.
“That’s how we got to know each other, on the train,” Jane Kane said Sunday.
“We figured out that we were the same background, both Irish, and had the same interests. It just was meant to be.”
After the wedding in Babylon, Tom and Jane Kane drove his Buick from Long Island to Southern California, where for three years he served at Navy bases and aboard the USS Princeton, from which he flew Navy fighter jets.
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[JR: Attended but not graduated. The War Years? Did that play a role? Married for 43 years. Interesting. Obviously his time at MC was important to someone to mention. We'll never know.]
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[JR: Attendees recognized on the theory "if it's important to some to mention in an obit, then we can spare a few prayers".]
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sarah boyle // May 4, 2009 at 7:57 pm
Thomas Kane was my grandfather. I am about to graduate from Manhattan College in a little over a week, it was really nice to read about him here. He was an extraordinary man.
Thank you for your prayers!
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