Terry Keenan's last assignment may be to remind everyone just how short life can be, as she died suddenly late last week from a cerebral hemorrhage. The 53-year-old veteran anchor is known for her work on CNN and Fox News and was most recently employed as a business columnist for the Sunday edition of the New York Post.
She first got her start as an anchor back in 1995, with CNBC, and returned to CNN in 1999 to serve as a senior correspondent for CNN's Business News and anchor of Moneyline Weekend with Terry Keenan. She hopped over to Fox News in 2002 in order to host Cashin' In.
At the time of her death, Keenan's top priority was her family, husband Ron Kass and son Benjamin Kass.
Last Friday, Keenan's sister Linda Keenan offered a statement on behalf of the family, saying:
"It is with tremendous sorrow that we report the passing, due to a massive cerebral hemorrhage, of a wonderful mother, wife, sister and pioneering financial journalist. Terry was a trailblazer who credited much of her success to her beloved mother's emphasis on education, which led her to Holy Names Academy in Albany, N.Y., and a math scholarship to Johns Hopkins University.
"At Johns Hopkins, she produced the iconic PBS show Wall Street Week with Louis Ruykeyser. Ruykeyser, recognizing her rare combination of talents — a flair for words coupled with an amazing facility with numbers — became a mentor. Soon she was picked up by CNN's Moneyline, hosted by another longtime mentor, Lou Dobbs.
"Terry reported on the 1987 stock market crash and was the first journalist to report live from the New York Stock Exchange. She went on to have various anchor stints at CNBC and Fox News. She left Fox to work on her most cherished production: her son Benno Kass with husband Ron Kass. She treasured every minute with her son.
"Throughout her post-TV career, she never missed a deadline for her weekly New York Post financial column. Aside from her son Benno and husband Ron, Terry leaves behind her two sisters, Joellen Gardner and Linda Keenan, as well as many nieces and nephews."
According to TVNewser, Keenan had been receiving treatment at New York's Lenox Hill Hospital for an undisclosed illness at the time of her death.
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