Rash's Surname Index
Notes for Jonas Martin PANIK
As a boy, Lt. Jonas Martin Panik, 26, dreamed of attending a military academy, and in May 1997, he graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy with a degree in history. As a naval intelligence officer, he spent the years since being commissioned touring the world.
Recently, he had been based at the Pentagon, where he was working Tuesday morning.
Panik grew up in Mingoville, Pa., the older of two children. When his sister, Martina, gave
birth to her first child, she named him Andrew Jonas in honor of her brother.
On Labor Day weekend, Panik went home for his father's birthday and a family picnic. "He got
to see people he hadn't seen in several years because of his deployments," said his mother,
Linda.
Panik was married and lived in a town house purchased a year ago in a newly developed
neighborhood in Odenton, where homeowners spend evenings chatting on street corners, walking
the dog and jogging behind babies in three-wheeled strollers.
The Navy was classifying Panik as "unaccounted for," and his mother and father are clinging to
that description. "Our hearts," Linda Panik said as her husband, Martin, wept beside her, "are
praying for a miracle."
Jonas Martin Panik, 26, was a lieutenant in the United States Navy assigned to the staff of the Chief of Naval Operations Intelligence Plot. He was the son of Martin a 1965 graduate of St. Maryıs Preparatory and Linda Panik, of Mingoville, Pa.
Born on Nov. 1 (All Saints Day), 1974, Jonas graduated from Bellefonte High School in 1993 and accepted an appointment to the U. S. Naval Academy. At the high school, he is still remembered as an outstanding student and superb athlete, playing football, basketball and track. At the Naval Academy, Jonas was a member of the football and powerlifting teams. He graduated in 1997 with a Bachelor of Science degree in history.
He married his wife, Jennifer, in June 1997. After he successfully completed the Naval Intelligence Officer's Basic Course in Virginia, they moved to Whidbey Island, Wash., where during his two years there, Jonas was deployed to the western Pacific and the Arabian Gulf. He was assigned to the Pentagon in 1999 and had recently begun a graduate degree program through the Naval War College. Jonas' personal awards included the Navy/Marine Corps Achievement Medal, the National Defense Medal, and the Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal.
Funeral services were held Sept. 29, 2001, at St. John the Evangelist Church in Bellefonte, Pa.
Centre Daily Times (State College, PA) - September 27, 2001
Deceased Name: Jonas Martin Panik
Jonas Martin Panik, 26, of Odenton, Md., died Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001, at the Pentagon in Arlington, Va., as a result of a terrorist attack.
Born Nov. 1, 1974, in State College, he was a son of Martin and Linda Panik of Mingoville.
On June 14, 1997, he married Jennifer Dallas, who survives at home.
He was a 1993 graduate of Bellefonte High School. In May 1997, he received a bachelor of science degree in history from the U.S. Naval Academy.
He had commenced graduate degree courses through the Naval War College.
Since May 1997, he was serving in the U.S. Navy, achieving the rank of lieutenant.
He was a naval intelligence officer and flag intelligence briefer.
He had been awarded the Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal, the National Defense Medal and the Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal.
He is survived by a sister, Martina Queen of Havelock, N.C.
There will be no public visitation.
A Funeral Mass will be celebrated at 9 a.m. Saturday at Saint John the Evangelist Catholic Church in Bellefonte, with the Rev. James Foster as celebrant.
Burial will be in Centre County Memorial Park in College Township, where military honors will be accorded.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the Jonas M. Panik Foundation in care of the Bellefonte Foundation, P.O. Box 97, Bellefonte, PA 16823.
Arrangements are under the direction of Eloise B. Kyper Funeral Home Inc., 1034 Benner Pike, College Township.
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