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- The Charleston Gazette, 30 April 1999
Daniel V. Maroney Jr., former president of the Amalgamated Transit Union International, died Thursday in General Division, CAMC. He was 77.
A native of Cabin Creek, Maroney served as international president of the 150,000-member Amalgamated Transit Union from 1973 to 1981. He joined the transit industry in 1947 as a bus driver with the Charleston Transit Co.
He was active in the union organizing campaign by employees of Atlantic Greyhound and Charleston Transit. He served as president of Local 1493, chairman of the Southern Council of Greyhound Local Unions and chairman of the National Council of Greyhound Local Unions. He was elected international vice president in 1965.
He served on the National AFL-CIO's Executive Council and on the board of directors of the Union Labor Life Insurance Co. He was vice president emeritus of the National AFL-CIO at the time of his death.
During the 1960 presidential campaign, Maroney became a political confidant of John F. Kennedy and remained close to the Kennedy family for the rest of his life.
He was a veteran of World War II and the Korean War.
Surviving: wife, Mary Lou Maroney; son, Daniel V. Maroney III; daughters, Deborah L. Wright of Charleston, Margaret E. Bowen of Hague, Va., Elizabeth C. Kasabian of Ashburn, Va., Mary Emma Montgomery of Seattle; brothers, George of Orlando, Fla., Janes of Denver, David of Charleston; sisters, Jane Ann Grishaber of Charleston, Carol Sue Stricker of Hurricane; 12 grandchildren; two great-grandchildren.
Service will be 2 p.m. Saturday at St. Anthony Catholic Church, Charleston, with the Rev. Richard Zelik officiating. Burial will be in Montgomery Memorial Park, London. Friends may call from 6 to 8 p.m. today at Wilson Funeral Home. In lieu of flowers, the family suggests donations to the Good Shepherd Catholic Church at Coalburg or the Alzheimer's Association.
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1921 - 1999 (77 years)
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