John Kehoe

Born August 5, 1938, Bronx, NY

Died June 27, 2017, New York, NY

John P. “Jack” Kehoe died peacefully in New York on June 27, 2017 of heart failure and complications from pulmonary fibrosis.

A man of great personal integrity, Jack was quick to help others with his good advice, the truth, and his compassionate empathy. He was a religious man who ended each conversation with “God Bless You,” and he really meant it. He mentored us, gathered us together in sheer celebration of life and opened his enormous heart to all.

Jack had a long and distinguished career on Wall Street in financial communications. He was a charismatic pioneer in the field of investor relations, co-founding Kehoe, White, Savage & Company in 1969 and chairing that firm for 30 years. He was a founding member of the National Investor Relations Institute in 1970. In 2000, he joined strategic communications firm, Abernathy MacGregor, where he served as a Senior Counselor. He spent the first 10 years of his career on Wall Street in a range of management roles.

After service in the U.S. Marine Corps, rising to the rank of Sergeant, Jack earned undergraduate and graduate degrees with honors from Fordham University and Columbia University Graduate School of Business. Jack is a former Trustee of Fordham University and served as co-chair of the Excelsior Campaign for Fordham which raised $540 million for the university. He received the Fordham Founder’s Award in 2009.

In Fordham, you find not just education, you find a way of being, a way of thinking. There’s love at Fordham. There’s redemption at Fordham. Fordham is a continuing way of life.”

John P. Kehoe FCRH ’60, FCLC ’85

Jack grew up in the Bronx, the son of Irish immigrants John M. Kehoe (County Wexford) and Molly Denning Kehoe (County Cavan). He attended Manhattan Prep, where he was elected Student Council president. During the summers, he was a hugely successful vendor of hot dogs at Yankee Stadium, a job that shaped his strong work ethic and his relentless focus on making connections between family, friends, colleagues and clients.

He was a member of the University Club, the New York Athletic Club, the Princeton Club, and the Racquet and Tennis Club in New York City, the Piping Rock Club in Locust Valley, the Lost Tree Club in North Palm Beach, FL and the Eastern Yacht Club in Marblehead, MA.

Devoted to his family and proud of his Bronx Irish Catholic roots, Jack leaves behind his adoring wife Peggy Brennan Hassett; loving children Maura Kehoe Collins (David), John M. Kehoe (Jennifer), Kevin D. Kehoe, and Brendan Kehoe (Katie); Peggy's children Meg Picotte MacClarence (Thomas), Jay Picotte Jr. (Meghan), and Brooke A. Picotte (Scott Corrigan); step-daughter Allise Dickson (Brad) from a previous marriage; and sixteen beloved grandchildren, nieces and nephews.

He lived in Manhattan and North Palm Beach, Florida.

Wake: Thursday, June 29th 2-5pm and 7-9pm

Frank Campbell Funeral Chapel, 1076 Madison Ave. at 81st St.

Funeral mass: Friday, June 30th at 10am

Church of St. Ignatius of Loyola, 980 Park Avenue at 84th St.

In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to either the Jack Kehoe Endowed Scholarship Fund at Fordham

University or the Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation.