Frederick J. Mahoney was born in Port Jervis, New York, on October 18, 1928. He was a son of a nurse and a USPS worker. Mahoney and his family moved to Danville, Pennsylvania, to eventually find the girl of his dreams, Frances Jane Benfer (Janey, to him). After four years in the US Navy as a radioman, second class, in the Korean War, Mahoney (Freddy, to her) and Janey married. Janey was a nurse, and Freddy worked in a pharmaceutical lab and was Danville's mayor and a town barber. Fifty-five years, six children, and many grandchildren later, Freddy would lose his Janey as she lost her brave stand against cancer. That's when he wrote his first song. More than 2,300 poems and songs later, he's still writing as he passes the time until he finds her again in heaven.
