OBITUARY
Robert “Bob” Keating, 77, passed away in the evening hours of Friday, October 10, 2025, in San Angelo following complications with his heart while awaiting gallbladder surgery.
Public viewing will from 10:00 AM until 8:00 PM, with the Rosary being prayed at 6:00 PM Monday, October 20, 2025, at Robert Massie Riverside Chapel.
Mass will be 10:30 AM Tuesday, October 21, 2025, at Holy Angels Catholic Church with Very Rev. Santiago Udayar, officiating.
Burial will be at 2:00 PM Wednesday, October 22, 2025, at Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery with funeral honors afforded by Joint Base San Antonio Air Force Base Honor Guard. Arrangements are under the direction of Robert Massie Funeral Home.
Bob was born and raised in Kansas City, Kansas where he grew up excelling in sports, especially baseball. He raised beagles with his dad, also Bob, and the pair traveled regularly to Michigan for field trials. He attended Bishop Ward High School through the middle of his junior year when he and his parents moved to Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, where he completed high school at Broken Arrow High.
Bob attended Oklahoma State University and UC San Bernardino before joining the US Air Force in 1968. He met his first wife, Pok Im “Choe” Keating, while stationed in Korea at Osan Air Base. The couple married in 1973 and welcomed their daughter, Kim, later that year in San Angelo.
Their son, Bobby, was born in 1975 at Kadena Air Base, Okinawa, Japan. The family traveled between Okinawa, Texas, and Alaska over the course of Bob’s 25 year career, settling in San Angelo, TX following retirement in 1994.
After Choe’s passing in 1994, Bob remarried in 2004 finding love again with Lorrie Keating. The two shared a happy life traveling the states, especially between their two homes in San Angelo, and Halls, Tennessee. Bob enjoyed spending time with his stepson, Jeremy Burch, and grandkids, Claire and Matthew.
In addition to his immediate family, Bob leaves behind extensive Air Force and military friendships with his Skivvy Nine family, his beagling family in Michigan, and large extended family and loving cousins in Kansas, Georgia, Colorado, and Montana.
He was preceded in death by his parents, Bob and Lou Belle Keating, and his first wife, Choe Keating. He is survived by his wife, Lorrie Keating; daughter, Kim and her wife Bethany; his son, Bobby; son, Jeremy, and grandchildren, Claire, Matthew, Isabel, and Victoria.
Memorial gifts can be made to Bishop Ward High School, c/o Kerry Stein, 708 N. 18th St. , Kansas City, KS, 66102.
