Family Card - Person Sheet
NamePatrick (Fr. Pat) GLEESON 
Birth23 Nov 1899, Shallee, Killoscully, Co. Tipperary. Ireland
Death10 Nov 1975, San Jose, Santa Clara, California.
BurialSt Peters Cemetary, Fresco, California.
OccupationPriest
ReligionRC
FatherChristopher GLEESON (1872-1948)
MotherJohanna GLEESON (COOLREA) (1871-1933)
Never married
Notes for Patrick (Fr. Pat) GLEESON
Sponsors at Baptism Michael Gleeson & Margaret McDonnell.
He was Colonel and Chief Chaplin to the US 6th Army. He was with the troops when they landed on the Normany beaches and he accompanied them all the way to Berlin.
He was educated for the priesthood in semininaries of the Maryknoll Order in the USA. He attended the Maryknoll Seminary in New York. He was ordained at the St. Thomas Seminary, Denver , Colorado. appointed to the Montery - Fresco diocese, California in 1932, he ministered successively in the parishes of Salinas, San Luis Obispo, and Coalinga.
Commissioned a First Lieutenant in the Chaplin Corps in 1935, in succeeding assignments he worked with the Civilian Conservation Corps camps. In Alaska, where he did his first two years of overseas duty, he served in the Aleutian Islands campaign. He crossed to England in 1943 and reached Normandy with the invading forces on D-Day(6th June1944). In combat areas for 330 days he accompanied US troops from Normandy to Berlin.
He was awarded the Bronze Star and the Croix de Gaulle with palm by General de Gaulle of France; he received battle stars for the Aleutian Islands campaign and the battles of Normandy , Northern France, the Ardennes, the Rhineland and Central Europe and he also held the Spearhead, which symbolised his participation in the invasion of Normandy.
He completed his eleven years of military service in 1946 at which time he was Director of Chaplains at the US 6Th Army with its headquarters at the Presidio in San Francisco.
He was the only chaplain in the Diocese of Monterey-Fresno to reach the rank of full colonelship and he served as chaplain to the Livermore Veterans Administration Hospital from 1947 until his retirement in 1967 after which he was a member of the parish at St. John Vianney Church in East San Jose. he died at the V.A.Hospital on 12th November 1975.
He was Colonel and Chief Chaplin to the US 6th Army. He was with the troops when they landed on the Normany beaches and he accompanied them all the way to Berlin.
He was educated for the priesthood in semininaries of the Maryknoll Order in the USA. He attended the Maryknoll Seminary in New York. He was ordained at the St. Thomas Seminary, Denver , Colorado. appointed to the Montery - Fresco diocese, California in 1932, he ministered successively in the parishes of Salinas, San Luis Obispo, and Coalinga.
Commissioned a First Lieutenant in the Chaplin Corps in 1935, in succeeding assignments he worked with the Civilian Conservation Corps camps. In Alaska, where he did his first two years of overseas duty, he served in the Aleutian Islands campaign. He crossed to England in 1943 and reached Normandy with the invading forces on D-Day(6th June1944). In combat areas for 330 days he accompanied US troops from Normandy to Berlin.
He was awarded the Bronze Star and the Croix de Gaulle with palm by General de Gaulle of France; he received battle stars for the Aleutian Islands campaign and the battles of Normandy , Northern France, the Ardennes, the Rhineland and Central Europe and he also held the Spearhead, which symbolised his participation in the invasion of Normandy.
He completed his eleven years of military service in 1946 at which time he was Director of Chaplains at the US 6Th Army with its headquarters at the Presidio in San Francisco.
He was the only chaplain in the Diocese of Monterey-Fresno to reach the rank of full colonelship and he served as chaplain to the Livermore Veterans Administration Hospital from 1947 until his retirement in 1967 after which he was a member of the parish at St. John Vianney Church in East San Jose. he died at the V.A.Hospital on 12th November 1975.