RIP: Andy Rooney

“Andrew Aitken "Andy" Rooney (January 14, 1919-November 5, 2011) is an American radio and television writer. He is most notable for his weekly broadcast "A Few Minutes with Andy Rooney", a part of the CBS News program 60 Minutesfrom 1978 to 2011. His final regular appearance on 60 Minutes aired October 2, 2011…

 

Family life

His wife, Marguerite "Margie" Rooney (née Howard), died in 2004 of heart failure, after 62 years of marriage. Rooney later wrote, "her name does not appear as often as it originally did [in my essays] because it hurts too much to write it."^[34] He has four children, including a daughter, Emily Rooney, who is a TV talk show host and former ABC News producer; she currently hosts a nightly Boston-area public affairs program, Greater Boston, on WGBH. Emily's identical twin, Martha, is Chief of the Public Services Division at the National Library of Medicine in Bethesda, Maryland. The third daughter, Ellen, is a photographer based in London. His son, Brian Rooney, has been a correspondent for ABC since the 1980s. Rooney was hospitalized on October 25, 2011 for developing postoperative complications. As of October 26, the 92-year-old Rooney was listed as in stable condition.^[35]

Rooney currently lives in the Rowayton section of Norwalk, Connecticut^[36] and in Rensselaerville, New York,^[37] and is a longtime season ticket holder for the New York Giants.^[38]…”