REMEMBERING THE LIVES OF THOSE IN MARYLAND WHO DIED FROM CORONAVIRUS

They were mothers and fathers, daughters and sons. Many were proud grandparents. All were loved, relatives say, and will be forever missed. As the number of deaths attributable to the coronavirus ticks upward, The Sun is working to chronicle those who have lost their lives in the Baltimore area. These are some of those victims.

REV. FRANCIS X. MOAN

The Rev. Francis X. Moan, a Jesuit priest and former Loyola Blakefield administrator who later assisted with refugees, died of complications of COVID-19 on April 17 at Saunders House at Lankenau Hospital in Wynnewood, Pennsylvania.

He was 93 and had lived in his order’s North Roland Park residence.

“Frank Moan was a schoolmaster’s master,” said The Rev. William J. Watters, former pastor of St. Ignatius Church in Mount Vernon. “He was an amazing teacher in a classroom. He loved teaching and had a passion for the classics. He was a tough, demanding teacher, too. And he also knew the boys sitting before him had great minds who could be challenged. He could mesmerize his students.”

Born in Baltimore and raised on Mainfield Avenue, he was the one of 11 children born to Frank Moan and his wife, Emma. He attended St. Dominic School and was a 1945 graduate of Loyola High School at Blakefield.

He entered religious studies at St. Isaac Jogues in Wernersville, Pennsylvania, and was ordained in 1957 at Woodstock College, a former Jesuit seminary in Howard County. He celebrated his first Mass at Immaculate Heart of Mary Church in Baynesville.

He also earned a bachelor’s degrees in English from Spring Hill College in Alabama and in sacred theology from Woodstock College.

Father Moan later earned a doctorate in education from Columbia University in New York.

Before he became headmaster at Loyola Blakefield, he taught Latin, Greek and religion at Gonzaga High School in Washington, D.C., St. Joseph’s Prep in Philadelphia and St. Paul’s School in New Hampshire.

John Stewart, the former dean of students at Loyola Blakefield, recalled Father Moan when he was named academic dean and oversaw academics at the school after a period of academic experimentation in the late 1960s.

“He came in and did an excellent job with our corriculum and setting our school on a different path from what we had been doing,” said Mr. Stewart, an assistant to the president and dean of students for 33 years. “As a teacher he had a gift for getting the best out of his students. As an administrator, he got the best out of his teachers, too.

Mr. Stewart also said, “He represented Jesuit pedagogy at its best.”

After his time at Blakefield, Father Moan became a Jesuit university administrator.

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But Mr. Pittman also showed early promise in football.

“He was outstanding in football,” Mr. Goodwin said.

He later played football at the McDonogh School in Owings Mills, where he graduated in 1981.

Mr. Pittman received a football scholarship from the University of Virginia and went on to rank second in school history and 10th in the Atlantic Coast Conference in kick-return yardage, according to a family obituary.

Ms. Pittman-Kilpatrick said she was extremely proud of her son and his accomplishments, though she acknowledged that she didn’t follow sports as closely as her son did.

“I was there for all his games,” his mother said.

In a 2015 Facebook post wishing his mother a happy birthday, Mr. Pittman wrote: “When I came on the field I could always locate you amongst 70-80,000 other fans, You were always there although you didn’t completely understand the game. Your outlook on education lead me to two of the finest academic institutions in America albeit for athletic reasons.”

Mr. Pittman earned a bachelor’s degree in psychology and graduated in 1986, according to a family obituary.

After college, Mr. Pittman met and married Michelle Long, and they had one son, Martin J. Pittman, the obituary said. The couple later divorced, his mother said.

Mr. Pittman’s passion for sports continued his entire life, his mother said. Mr. Pittman coached football, basketball, and track and field at the St. Albans School in Washington, D.C., for nearly 20 years.

“All the years that we coached together, whether it was in season or off season, I could always rely on Malcolm,” Doug Boswell, St. Albans’ former assistant athletic director and head football and track coach, said in a statement.

“Both St. Albans and I will surely miss his friendship, his enthusiasm, his infectious smile, and his distinctive raspy voice. Coach Pittman’s strongest qualities were his love for the kids, his passion for the sports he coached, and the loyalty he had to St. Albans, to the kids, and to his colleagues.”

Mr. Pittman played tag football as an adult, and in January attended a tournament in Florida, his mother said.

In addition to coaching, he was a customer service specialist in the entertainment industry, and worked in sales at a nonprofit and in event management, the obituary said.

In addition to his mother and son, Mr. Pittman is survived by a brother, Steve Pittman; sisters Kenya and Keiona Pittman; and other family members.