Eileen M. Mckillop

Eileen McKillop passed away peacefully on March 27, 2024, at her home in Mineola, NY.

Eileen was born in Brooklyn, NY on July 2, 1925. She was the oldest among four children of the late Patrick and Margaret Maloney. She was a class of 1979 graduate of SUNY at Old Westbury and was a class of 1942 graduate of Bishop McDonnell high school in Brooklyn, NY. On August 3, 1946, she married James McKillop, who passed in 1998. Her legacy includes her devoted children: Maureen Sullivan of Rocky Point, NY, who passed in 1984, Margaret Sullivan and her husband James of Centerport, NY, Kathleen McKillop and KC of Cutchogue, NY, Patricia Sundberg and her husband Bobby of Doylestown, PA, James McKillop and his wife Ilene of Yaphank, NY, Colleen Goode of Wantagh, NY, Sean McKillop and his wife Susan of New York, NY. She was the beloved sister to Francis Maloney and his wife Karen, of Hampton Bays, NY, and had been predeceased by her brother John and her sister Sheila.

Eileen was a loving grandmother to her twenty grandchildren: Katie, Erin, Thomas, John, Rita and Kevin Sullivan, Alana and Tara Sullivan, Michael Winn, Meghan and Brian Sundberg, Ryan and Michelle McKillop, Allie, Jack, Julie and Annie Goode and Seamus, Liam and Colin McKillop. She was also blessed with thirteen great grandchildren: TJ, Christopher and Caroline Perri, Avery and Callie York, Ian Sullivan, Matthew Sullivan, James and Mary Kate Winn, Molly and Paige Fedele, Naomi Breuhaus and Rory McKillop. Her absence will leave a void in the lives of her many cousins, nieces, nephews, and other family and friends, but they take comfort in memories of cherished times spent together, especially those spent at her summer home on Nassau Point in Cutchogue, NY.

Relatives and friends are invited to call between 2 and 5pm, and 7 and 9pm Monday, April 1st, at Cassidy Funeral Home, 156 Willis Avenue, Mineola, NY. 11501. A funeral mass will be held at Corpus Christi Church 155 Garfield Avenue, Mineola, NY 11501 at 10:30am on Tuesday, April 2nd. Burial will follow at the Cemetery of the Holy Rood, Westbury, NY. Donations in memory may be made to The INN, www.the-inn.org