Born: 07 September 1884, Ballinlonig, Dromcollogher, County Limerick
Entered: 06 September 1902, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly
Ordained: 28 June 1917, Woodstock College, Woodstock MD, USA
Final Vows: 02 February 1921
Died: 15 January 1959, Loyola High School, Venice Boulevard, Los Angeles CA, USA - Oregonensis Province (ORE)
Transcribed HIB to TAUR : 1904; TAUR to CAL : 1909; CAL to ORE
Parents farmers.
Seven brothers (1 deceased) and four sisters.
Educated at Broadford NS, then Drumcolleher NS and then Crescent College SJ
1902-1904: St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly, Novitiate (TAUR from 1904)
1904-1905: St Andrew-on-Hudson, Poughkeepsie NY, USA, Rhetoric
1905-1907: Gonzaga University, East Boone Avenue, Spokane WA, USA, Regency
1907-1908: Seattle College, East Marion Street, Seattle, Washington, USA, Regency
1908-1911: Gonzaga University, East Boone Avenue, Spokane WA, USA, Philosophy (CAL from 1909)
1911-1914: Seattle College, East Marion Street, Seattle, Washington, USA, Regency
1914-1918: Woodstock College, Woodstock MD, USA (ARNEB), Theology
1918-1919: Loyola College, West 18th Street, Los Angeles CA, USA, Teaching
1919-1920: Sacred Heart Novitiate, College Avenue, Los Gatos CA, USA, tertianship
1920-1925: Church of the Blessed Sacrament, Hollywood Boulevard, Los Angeles CA, USA, Minister, Prefect of Church, Procurator, Director of Parish School
1925-1926: Seattle College, Interlaken Boulevard, Seattle, Washington, USA, Teaching, Spiritual Father
1926-1927: St Leo the Great, South 13th Street, Tacoma WA, USA, Teaching in High School
1927-1928: Gonzaga University, East Boone Avenue, Spokane WA, USA, Teaching, Catechetics in Sacred Heart Hospital
1928-1929: Bellarmine College Preparatory SJ, Hedding Street, San Jose CA, USA, Teaching
1929-1932: Church of the Blessed Sacrament, Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles CA, USA, Assistant Prefect of Church, Curate, Catechetics in St Leo’s Parish School
1932-1933: St Francis Xavier, West Pine Street, Missoula, Montana, USA, Assistant Prefect of Church, Catechetics in Parish school (ORE from 1932)
1933-1936: St Stanislaus Church, Fifth Avenue, Lewiston, Idaho, USA, Superior from 31/07/1933, Prefect of Church, Director of Parish School
1936-1940: St Aloysius Church, East Mission Avenue, Spokane, Washington, USA, Minister, POrefect of Church, Director of Parish School
1940-1942: St Peter’s College, Grand Street, Jersey City, New Jersey, USA (MARNEB), Assistant Prefect of Church
1942-1943: St. lgnatius Church, South East 43rd Avenue, Portland, Oregon, USA, Curate at St. Monica's Church, Marshfield, Oregon, USA
1943-1948: Loyola High School, Venice Boulevard, Los Angeles CA, USA (CAL), Teaching
1948-1955: Church of the Blessed Sacrament, Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles CA, USA, Curate
1955-1959: Loyola High School, Venice Boulevard, Los Angeles CA, USA (CAL), Spiritual Father
◆ Irish Province News 34th Year No 3 1959
Obituary :
Fr Daniel J Stack (1884-1959)
(From the Oregon- Jesuit, March 1959)
Rev. Daniel J. Stack, S.J. suffered a stroke at Loyola High School, Los Angeles, California, on 13th January, 1959 and died two days later of a cerebral haemorrhage.
Fr. Stack was widely known in the Northwest, where he served as assistant pastor at St. Leo's Parish, Tacoma, WA., 1930-2 and at St. Francis Xavier Parish, Missoula, MT., 1932-3, and where he was pastor both at St. Stanislaus, Lewiston, ID, 1933-6, and at St. Aloysius, Spokane, WA., 1936-40.
Fr. Stack was born at Dromcollogher, Co. Limerick, Ireland on 8th September, 1884. He attended Jesuit schools in Limerick and entered the Jesuit Novitiate in Ireland on 6th September, 1902. From there, he transferred to the Novitiate at St. Andrews-on-the-Hudson, Poughkeepsie, N.Y., to continue for the mission work on the Rocky Mountain Missions. He taught school at Spokane and Seattle, Wn., for a number of years and on 28th June, 1917, was ordained to the priesthood at Woodstock College MD. The ten years after his tertianship were spent in teaching at Seattle, Spokane and Santa Fe, California.
In 1943 Fr. Stack was assigned as a teacher at Loyola High School, Los Angeles, a position he filled until 1948, when he became an assistant at Blessed Sacrament Parish, Hollywood. Ill health in 1955 led to his return to Loyola High School, where he was assigned as spiritual father for the community and confessor for several neighbouring convents.
Fr. Stack has three sisters living in Ireland, Sr. M. Stanislaus, Sr. M. Aloysius and Sr. M. Celsus. A fourth sister was overtaken by death as she was about to enter the religious life. Three of his five brothers were priests and all are now deceased, the last, Fr. James Stack, C.Ss.R. having died in Ireland in 1958.
Fr. Daniel Stack was a member of that now dwindling band of pioneers from foreign shores who volunteered for apostolic labours on the old Rocky Mountain Missions. He and those hardy veterans of the past founded the missions, schools and parishes which have been handed on to the Society. We owe them a debt of great gratitude.