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Maureen Dempsey Keenan
Maureen Dempsey Keenan of Southampton died on May 31 at Southampton Hospital. She was 80.
Born in Bay Shore on July 19, 1934, she was the daughter of Anne and Brian Dempsey. With her parents and twin brothers, Charles and Patrick, she moved to Southampton at an early age and attended Sacred Hearts Elementary School and graduated from Southampton High School in 1952 as salutatorian.
Upon graduating from high school, she attended St. Vincent’s Hospital School of Nursing in Manhattan. While attending nursing school, she met Richard T. Keenan of New Hyde Park, and they married on October 6, 1956. She worked at Nassau Hospital for 10 years while the couple lived in Levittown.
Ms. Keenan and her husband moved back to her hometown of Southampton on August 18, 1967, with their three children. She continued her nursing career as a nurse at Southampton Hospital, a pediatric nurse practitioner for Dr. Sherburne Brown in Southampton, and completed her career as a school nurse at Southampton Intermediate School. Upon retirement she was an active member of Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary Church in Southampton and a devoted mother and grandmother.
Ms. Keenan was predeceased by her husband in 1983, and a brother, Charles Dempsey, in 1994. She is survived by a brother Patrick Dempsey and wife Beth of Locke, New York; sons, Michael Keenan and wife Laura of Southampton and Terrance Keenan of Southampton; daughter, Erin Morris and husband Daniel T. Morris of Southampton; and granddaughter, Katelyn Morris. She is also survived by sisters-in-law, Barbara Horton of Florida, Florence Keenan of St. James and Mary Burke and husband Anthony of Huntington Station; as well as many nieces and nephews.
Visitation was held at the O’Connell Funeral Home in Southampton on June 4. A funeral Mass was held at the Basilica Parish of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary Church in Southampton on June 5, with Monsignor William J. Gill officiating.
on Jun 23, 2015