{"id":270,"date":"2012-07-19T18:50:35","date_gmt":"2012-07-19T18:50:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/?p=270"},"modified":"2025-09-30T01:53:44","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T01:53:44","slug":"bob-mckeon-co-founder-nys-right-to-life-party-and-westchester-county-rtl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/?p=270","title":{"rendered":"Bob McKeon, co-founder NYS Right to Life Party and Westchester County RTL"},"content":{"rendered":"

After a long illness. He was 82. A true activist.<\/p>\n

A personal reflection from Elizabeth Costanzo of the Westchester Right to Life Party and from the HVCL:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Robert D. McKeon was one of the founders of Westchester Right to Life and the Right to Life Party. He was on the Board of New York State Right to Life for many years. He devoted much of his time in the defense of the unborn, even using his vacation days from work to educate the young with pro-life slides about life in the womb. He was politically astute and helped to put many pro-life candidates in office.<\/p>\n

Words alone can never fully capture some individuals and the impact they have on others, in this case, in and out of the pro-life community. Bob's unique presence and generous gift of self will be missed by all who knew him. Rest in peace, good and faithful servant.<\/p>\n

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Robert D. "Bob" McKeon (1930 – 2012)<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Mckeon<\/a><\/p>\n

Robert D. "Bob" McKeon, of Crestwood, NY on July 18, 2012. Born in the Bronx, NY on May 1, 1930 to the late John and Jenny(nee Pushnitha) McKeon. Beloved husband of Mary (nee Devine) for 60 years. Loving father of MaryEllen Herzog, Robert, Timothy, Noreen, Michael and Patrick, grandfather of 20, great grandfather of 4. Brother of Grace, Dorothy, Sally, Rose, Lillian, Maryann, Joseph and Dennis and the late Lavinia, Genevieve and John. Uncle to 68 nieces and nephews. He was a graduate of Cardinal Hayes H.S., Manhattan College and earned his Master's from NYU. Served in the US Army, from 1951 to 1953, as part of the counter intelligence unit. Retired executive from IBM after 35 years. He also coached the Hillcrest Lakers for 15 years, highlighted by coaching the First Hillcrest team to win the City wide Baseball Championship in 1967. Proudly served as an usher for the 11:30 Sunday Mass at Annunciation Church. He was the co-founder of the New York State Right to Life Party in 1978 and served as Westchester County RTL Chairman for 30 years. Calling hours at the Fred H. McGrath & Son, Funeral Home uin Bronxville between the hours of 5 to 8 pm Thursday and 4 to 8 pm Friday. Mass of Christian Burial Annunciation Church, Crestwood, on Saturday July 21 at 10 a.m. In lieu of flowers contributions may be made in his memory to Right to Life, Box 263 Hastings-on-Hudson, NY 10706.<\/p>\n

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After a long illness. He was 82. A true activist. A personal reflection from Elizabeth Costanzo of the Westchester Right to Life Party and from the HVCL: Robert D. McKeon was one of the founders of Westchester Right to Life and the Right to Life Party. He was on the Board of New York State […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=270"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":814,"href":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270\/revisions\/814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}