Kenny was one of my favorite people!   We spent lots of time together as kids always enjoying each others company.  Kenny was funny, smart and a great friend!

Mac...Please rest in peace!  Bob Ebert

DEAR GEORGE AND FAMILY:IT WAS AN HONOR TO HAVE WORKED WITH KEN FOR THE PAST 19 YEARS AT BROOKLYN TECH H.S. IN MY FIRST YEAR, KEN WAS SO HELPFUL IN PROVIDING ME WITH SOME LESSON PLANS AND VALUABLE INSTRUCTION GUIDANCE. I NEVER FORGOT THAT - AND THE FACT THAT HE SHARED HIS ROOM WITH THIS ROOKIE.

KEN AND I SHARED A LOVE OF SPORTS, ESPECIALLY HORSE RACING AS I HAD A 20 -YEAR CAREER WITH THE NEW YORK RACING ASSN. BEFORE ENTERING THE TEACHING PROFESSION. AROUND DERBY TIME, KEN WOULD REMIND ME THAT "SECRETARIAT" MADE THE COVER OF TIME MAGAZINE. 

IT WAS AN PRIVILEGE TO HAVE KNOWN YOU AND YOUR SPIRIT WILL LIVE ON AT BTHS. EVERY TIME I PASS YOUR CLASS ROOM I WILL SMILE AND THANK GOD FOR YOUR TIME ON EARTH! YOU WILL BE IN Y PRAYERS, KEN

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So sorry to hear of Kenny's passing.  He was a great teammate, friend, classmate and all-around good guy.  Combative spirit, hard-nosed approach to winning, always doing his best to make everyone else step up when needed. He was the anchor on our winning Oceanside United and Oceanside H.S. championship teams, the "money" goalie who knew when to turn it on and whose star shone brightest when the pressure was greatest. Truly unique character, who also had a great sense of humor. Maybe he was smiling, maybe he was smirking; hard to tell, but the result  was pure Kenny.  I can't speak for all his classmates and teammates (many of us were together from 3rd grade through our senior championship year), but I'm sure we all feel this loss.  Happy trails, Kenny. Thanks for the great memories.

  Ken played soccer and lacrosse for The Big Red two NCAA semi-finalist teams of 1974 and 1975, for Oceanside High School, and for Oceanside Little League soccer and baseball. Ken was also teammate on Oceanside’s Janowski’s Hamburger Little League baseball team which was the American League Champs in 1963 (?).  Ken, a goalie, was MVP of the Long Island High School Championship Tournament as well as the  Oceanside soccer team of 1970. At Cornell, Ken’s goalie career was continued until a junior college transfer named Bruce Arena became the All-American goalie for the Cornell NCAA semi-finalist team of 1972.
   An ILR school star student and grad, Ken worked for my father at Local 463 AFL-CIO for about 7 years. He was a dedicated trade unionist at that time which included preserving worker strike dignity using  “lacrosse hit tactics” on scabs. My father was very proud of Ken.
   Ken was “one of a kind.”


Dear George and the entire McCumiskey family, 
     Please accept my deepest condolences.  
     It is with deep sadness that I write this message but I feel compelled to share my thoughts about my dear friend Ken.  It is a terrible loss as he just retired from teaching.  
    I was fortunate to have him as a friend for almost two decades.   One of our favorite things to do with one another was to go to museums.  The picture I will share is from a museum visit.

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Kenneth McCumiskey

2 juillet 1953 – 27 juillet 2018

Riverside Memorial Chapel

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