Richard M. Keane

PITTSFIELD -- Richard Matthew Keane, 84, of Providence Court, 379 East St., died Friday while visiting his daughter, Theresa I. Wilson of 9 McKinley Drive, Delmar, N.Y.

Born in Roxbury on Nov. 2, 1921, son of Richard and Annie Carroll Keane, he attended schools there and graduated from Bentley School of Accounting and Finance, now Bentley College, in 1957. He moved to Dalton in 1960 and to Pittsfield in the 1970s.

He was an Army veteran of World War II.

Mr. Keane was a certified public accountant for Kimberly-Clark Corp. in Lee from 1965 until his retirement in 1977. While in the Boston area, he was a driver for the Massachusetts Transit Authority for several years.

He was a member of Wahconah Country Club in Dalton and of Dalton American Legion Post 155. He was a bowler and golfer.

His former wife, the former Charlotte F. Garrett, predeceased him.

Besides his daughter, he leaves three sons, Robert F. Keane of Collegeville, Pa., Garrett P. Keane of Amherst, N.H., and Paul A. Keane of Pittsfield; three other daughters, Mary Denise Lum of Eagle River, Alaska, and Constance A. Feola and Charlotte F. Keane, both of Delmar; 18 grandchildren, and seven great-grandchildren.

Another son, Richard M. Keane, died in the North Tower of the World Trade Center in New York on Sept. 11, 2001.

FUNERAL NOTICE -- Calling hours for Richard M. Keane, who died Friday, Aug. 11, 2006, will be Wednesday, Aug. 16, at DERY-FOLEY FUNERAL HOME, 890 East Main St., Dalton, from 5 to 8. A Liturgy of Christian Burial will be celebrated Thursday at 6 at St. Catherine of Siena Church in Albany, N.Y. In lieu of flowers, the family suggests that memorial contributions be made in his memory to The Keane Foundation, P.O. Box 290742, Wethersfield, CT 06129-0742, or for more information on contributing or viewing this foundation, you may log on to www.keanefoundation.org. Mr. Keane is lovingly survived by four daughters-in-law, Judith, Marilee, Marcia and Sharon Keane, and by three sons-in-law, Richard Lum, Mark Feola, and Tony Wilson. He was predeceased by a brother and four sisters.