Editing Bob Keeshan (section)

==Personal life==
Keeshan was married to Anne Jeanne Laurie Keeshan for 45 years, until her death February 25, 1996.<ref name= "query.nytimes.com"/> They had three children: Michael Derek, Laurie Margaret, and Maeve Jeanne.

Keeshan resided on Melbury Road in [[Babylon Village]], [[Long Island]], [[New York (state)|New York]], before moving to spend the last 14&nbsp;years of his life in [[Norwich, Vermont]], where he became a children's advocate, as well as an author.<ref>{{cite news |last=Bruni |first=Frank |title=Are They Dead Yet? Well, Yes and No |newspaper=The New York Times |date=February 9, 1997 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1997/02/09/weekinreview/are-they-dead-yet-well-yes-and-no.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm |access-date=December 24, 2011}}</ref> His memoirs, ''Good Morning, Captain'', were published in 1995 by [[Fairview Press]].<ref>{{cite book| title=Good Morning, Captain: Fifty Wonderful Years with Bob Keeshan, TV's Captain Kangaroo| last=Keeshan| first=Robert| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=q8oGAAAACAAJ&q=good+morning+captain| publisher=Fairview Press| year=1996| isbn=978-1577490005}}</ref> Bob Keeshan died in [[Windsor, Vermont]], on January 23, 2004, at age 76. He was buried in Saint Joseph's Cemetery in [[Babylon, New York (town)|Babylon, New York]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FOHgDAAAQBAJ&dq=Saint+Joseph%27s+Cemetery+captain+kangaroo&pg=PA396| title= Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons| edition= 3rd |first=Scott|last=Wilson|date=August 19, 2016| publisher=McFarland|isbn=9781476625997|via=Google Books}}</ref>

Keeshan's grandson, Britton Keeshan, became the youngest person at that time to have climbed the [[Seven Summits]] by climbing [[Mount Everest]] in May 2004.  He carried photographs of his grandfather on that ascent, and he buried a photo of the two of them at the summit.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.usatoday.com/sports/2004-06-02-climbing-keeshan_x.htm |title= Keeshan spans globe to honor famous 'Kangaroo' |access-date=September 20, 2007 |newspaper=[[USA Today]] |first1=Sal |last1=Ruibal |date=June 2, 2004}}</ref>