Excerpt from obituary by daughter Christine Gainer Barton as published by Daily Press, Hampton VA. See Glenville Democrat for longer version.
BALTIMORE, MARYLAND - Patrick Anthony Gainer, beloved husband and father, passed away in Baltimore, Maryland on November 28, 2015 at the age of 88. Loving, pious, generous to a fault, humorous, brilliant and talented, Patrick was a retired NASA engineer who loved to recall his work in designing star charts for and with the Mercury astronauts. In addition to his work at NASA, he was oboist for the Peninsula Symphony, Norfolk Symphony, Virginia Symphony and Governor's Palace Orchestra of Colonial Williamsburg. He was an accomplished photographer and photographic researcher. He published several articles about photography, and was a contributing editor for Photo Techniques magazine. He was born in Morgantown, West Virginia, on July 14, 1927, the son of Patrick Ward Gainer, renowned folklorist and West Virginia University English professor, and Antoinette Kizinski. He served in the US Army from 1945 to 1947, was a graduate of West Virginia University, and worked for NASA Langley in Hampton, Virginia from 1952 to 1982. He is survived by five of his six children, 10 grandchildren and 6 great-grandchildren, including son Patrick, daughters Mary Calame, Alice Standin, Frances Davey, and Christine Barton, brothers Michael and Thomas Gainer, and sister Miriam Goder. Preceding him in death was his beloved wife Rosemary Layman Gainer, with whom he long wished to be reunited. God willing, it is so.
First hand information from Christine Gainer Barton.
Have you taken a DNA test? If so, login to add it. If not, see our friends at Ancestry DNA.
Featured National Park champion connections: Patrick is 18 degrees from Theodore Roosevelt, 23 degrees from Stephanus Johannes Paulus Kruger, 17 degrees from George Catlin, 17 degrees from Marjory Douglas, 25 degrees from Sueko Embrey, 19 degrees from George Grinnell, 29 degrees from Anton Kröller, 20 degrees from Stephen Mather, 26 degrees from Kara McKean, 17 degrees from John Muir, 21 degrees from Victoria Hanover and 27 degrees from Charles Young on our single family tree. Login to find your connection.