The Gahan family is trying to get an approximate head count for a celebration of Father Gahan’s life for those attending the Requiem Mass in Quantico, Virginia. This gathering would take place in the early afternoon on Tuesday, June 2, 2026, and would be an opportunity for those in attendance to celebrate Father Gahan’s life, reminisce, and share ample food and drink.

If you expect to attend the funeral and are interested in this celebration, it would help the family’s planning if you could fill out the form below. You will be asked in the form how many people will be attending with you. We would prefer to overestimate rather than underestimate, so if you hope to go, please fill out this form in the positive as early as possible. His children know many likely attendees, but it would help the planning to know how you knew Father Gahan if the connection is through his time in Spartanburg, the Marine Corps, or other times in his life. If your relationship is non-familial, it would be great to learn about that connection in the message component of the form.

Please remember that all events on Marine Corps Base Quantico will require a Real ID and base registration. The final location will depend on expected attendance and availability, but it will be near Quantico, Virginia.