Mrs. Daneeka is a fictional character from the novel Catch-22. She is the wife of Doc Daneeka, the squadron's doctor. Doc Daneeka presumably gets killed in the suicide of McWatt, a bomber pilot who crashed his plane into a mountain after he accidentally killed Kid Sampson, and therefore was officially declared dead. After the official announcement that her husband died, she also received a letter from him in which he begged her to make clear to the defense department that he wasn't dead. She tried, but failed. After that, the money from the insurance policies and from several veteran's organisations started trickling in, and she decided that she was better off with her husband dead and moved with her kids into another state altogether.

See also

Catch-22
Joseph Heller