Posted on 10/24/2014 9:16:26 PM PDT by John W
Terry Keenan, a former CNN and Fox News anchor, has died. She was 53. Keenan’s sister, Linda, tells TVNewser the cause of death was a massive cerebral hemorrhage. Keenan had been receiving treatment at New York’s Lenox Hill Hospital.
A pioneer among women working in financial news, Keenan joined Fox in 2002 from the now-shuttered CNNfn where she’d been since 1998. Before that, Keenan spent three years at CNBC. Her first television job was at CNN, which she joined in 1986.
Keenan left Fox News in 2009 to, in her family’s words, “work on her most cherished production: her son Benno Kass, with husband Ron Kass” (pictured, left, in a family photo shared with TVNewser).
She was still sharing her financial knowledge, though, working as a business columnist for the Sunday editions of the New York Post. Keenan’s last story for the newspaper was published October 19.
Michael Gray, the Post‘s Sunday business editor, reported Keenan’s death via Twitter early Friday.
The Keenan family provided TVNewser a copy of the death notice:
Keenan, Terry. It is with tremendous sorrow that we report the passing, due to a massive cerebral hemorrhage, of a wonderful mother, wife, sister, and pioneering financial journalist.
Terry was a trailblazer who credited much of her success to her beloved mother’s emphasis on education, which led her to Holy Names Academy in Albany, NY, and a math scholarship to Johns Hopkins University.
At Johns Hopkins, she produced the iconic PBS show Wall Street Week with Louis Ruykeyser; Ruykeyser, recognizing her very rare combination of talents – a flair for words coupled with an amazing facility with numbers – became a mentor.
Soon she was picked up by CNN’s Moneyline, hosted by another longtime mentor, Lou Dobbs. Terry reported on the 1987 stock market crash, and was the first journalist to report live from the New York Stock Exchange.
She went on to have various anchor stints at CNBC and Fox News.
She left Fox to work on her most cherished production: her son Benno Kass, with husband Ron Kass. She treasured every minute with her son.
Throughout her post-TV career, she never missed a deadline for her weekly New York Post financial column.
Aside from her son Benno and husband Ron, Terry leaves behind her two sisters, Joellen Gardner and Linda Keenan, as well as many nieces and nephews.
“... I prefer a massive heart attack when I’m sleeping ...”
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That is how my dad left this earth at the age of 54.
That was 40 years ago, when I was 23,
and I have outlived him by 9 years, (so far).
I still miss him, even after all this time.
For you, it might seem like a good thing.
But for your family, there is never a “good” time to die.
I pray that GOD may bless and comfort the Keenan family.
It is embarrassing to see how many people on FR
seem to find humor in someone’s untimely death.
RIP. I don’t watch the news on TV anymore but I remember her and the voice. God Bless.
Stroke..... all too often quick with no warning signs
That’s great! Thanks ....
“She was the face of “Cashin’ in”
Now I remember her.
I want to be 105 and get shot by a 25 year old jealous husband.
How sad....I remember watching her on Saturday mornings on the Fox Business block.
God be with her family. I hope they are comforted.
Humor is the most common coping mechanism for grief. Every elder in my family who’s passed was feted both during the funeral and afterwards in very extensive meals with everyone sharing stories, most of them comical, about the deceased.
Losing a loved one is an emotionally taxing time. Humor, laughing, and sharing love with the family is the best cure for warding off depression in what is otherwise a very sad moment in life.
Sad to say that in too many instances, FR has become a blank wall for graffiti. They post the first thing that pops into their pea brain.
Now that is righteously funny!
#29 = Truth
I see both sides of the humor on death threads discussion, but, this recent column might be the way I lean just a bit.
Sorry, but it’s your fault if you’re offended all the time
http://themattwalshblog.com/2014/09/16/sorry-but-its-your-fault-if-your-offended-all-the-time/
Smart as a whip and highly intelligent. Keenan was a pro. I wish there were more like her.
Triple E is funny!
Bump for the day shift, in case you missed this news...
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