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Robert Emmett
“Skip” Kenney
Of Arlington Heights
Robert E. ‘Skip” Kenney was born January 4, 1939 in Chicago to Robert and Mary ( nee McIntyre) Kenney. He died Saturday at Northwest Community Healthcare Center in Arlington Heights.
Mr. Kenney started his career as a commercial industrial real estate appraiser/ mortgage banker achieving the SRA designation and later worked as a commodities trader. He later became the proprietor of R.E. Kenney Appraisal.
Skip served in the Army during the Vietnam War. He loved golf and will be remembered as a good joke and storyteller and as a true and easy friend. He walked hand in hand to his journey with his higher power. A friend of Bill W.
His survivors include his wife Eugenia M. “Gina” nee Wawrzyniak, whom he married July 16, 1966; his daughter Kathleen (Dr. Robert) Stevens of Chicago, his son R. Michael Kenney of Arlington Heights; and he was “Papa Scoop” to Jack and Scott Stevens.
Skip was preceded in death by his father Robert and his mother Mary Garrity.
Visitation from 3:00 until 9:00 PM, Tuesday, November 11, 2008 at the Glueckert Funeral Home, Ltd., 1520 N. Arlington Heights Rd., (4 blocks south of Palatine Rd.) Arlington Heights. Prayers 10:15 AM, Wednesday, November 12, 2008 at the Glueckert Funeral Home, Ltd., to Our Lady of the Wayside Church, 440 S. Mitchell, Arlington Heights for Mass at 11:00 AM. Burial at will be in the family lot following Mass.
Family requests please omit flowers.
Of Arlington Heights
Robert E. ‘Skip” Kenney was born January 4, 1939 in Chicago to Robert and Mary ( nee McIntyre) Kenney. He died Saturday at Northwest Community Healthcare Center in Arlington Heights.
Mr. Kenney started his career as a commercial industrial real estate appraiser/ mortgage banker achieving the SRA designation and later worked as a commodities trader. He later became the proprietor of R.E. Kenney Appraisal.
Skip served in the Army during the Vietnam War. He loved golf and will be remembered as a good joke and storyteller and as a true and easy friend. He walked hand in hand to his journey with his higher power. A friend of Bill W.
His survivors include his wife Eugenia M. “Gina” nee Wawrzyniak, whom he married July 16, 1966; his daughter Kathleen (Dr. Robert) Stevens of Chicago, his son R. Michael Kenney of Arlington Heights; and he was “Papa Scoop” to Jack and Scott Stevens.
Skip was preceded in death by his father Robert and his mother Mary Garrity.
Visitation from 3:00 until 9:00 PM, Tuesday, November 11, 2008 at the Glueckert Funeral Home, Ltd., 1520 N. Arlington Heights Rd., (4 blocks south of Palatine Rd.) Arlington Heights. Prayers 10:15 AM, Wednesday, November 12, 2008 at the Glueckert Funeral Home, Ltd., to Our Lady of the Wayside Church, 440 S. Mitchell, Arlington Heights for Mass at 11:00 AM. Burial at will be in the family lot following Mass.
Family requests please omit flowers.
