Geoffrey Keane

Geoffrey and I grew up together in Westport, CT. We played sports as kids, rode bikes, and built stuff in the woods together. Later, we snuck cigarettes, my father’s booze, and got high together in the woods. After graduating Staples High School in 1972, Geoffrey got a technical degree from SUNY College in Canton, New York in heating and air conditioning, and went to work at a firm in southern California, after which he sold insurance and time shares for a while in the San Francisco area. My brother would eventually come back to Connecticut to work at our father, George F. Keane’s philanthropic institution, the CommonFund. He would later run Merit Music in New Canaan, teaching lessons there, and often worked a variety of handyman and landscaping jobs along the way. Geoffrey was married twice, but lived alone for the past couple of decades.

Geoffrey was a kind, loving, talented, and gentle person. He also struggled with genetically inherited debilitating mental illness the majority of his life.

Despite his handicaps, Geoffrey was an accomplished singer (a soloist with several area church choirs), a cellist, a guitarist, a composer, and a published author. Geoffrey also served as a loving companion for both our mother and father when they became elderly.

I was my brother’s caretaker for the past couple of decades, and managed a trust for his benefit, funded

primarily by my father. Geoffrey lived a quiet life where he enjoyed self initiated creative projects in music composing, building, and writing; he enjoyed smoking cigars (and pot), cooking on his grill, watching his favorite shows, doing odd handyman jobs around his property, at my recording studio, and for friends. He also took care of a small stray outdoor cat from the neighborhood.

Geoffrey Keane, was the son of George and Winifred Keane, both deceased. He is survived by me, (his older brother, Brian Keane), his younger sister Shelia Keane in Australia, two nephews, Wylder Keane, and Dylan Keane, and good friends of over 65 years in several cases.

Geoffrey will be interred at St Peter’s Cemetery, 71 Lake Ave. Ext., Danbury, CT on Monday, July 28, 2025 at 11:00AM.

In lieu of any flowers or donations, what we could use most is to find a home for the outdoor cat, or contribute to an animal shelter of your choice, or to the George F. Keane scholarship at Fairfield University.

Rest in peace, my dear Geoffrey. You are gone from this life, but remain in my heart forever.

Arrangements by Green Funeral Home, Danbury, CT.