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Sep 17, 2023 · News. Crime and Public Safety. ‘He had the heart of a lion’: Lowell legend Mickey O’Keefe dies at 75. O’Keefe, a police officer, veteran, boxer, family man and more, passed away...
Sep 14, 2023 · Retired Lowell Police Sergeant and United States Army Veteran, Michael Timothy “Mickey” O’Keefe, age 75, a lifelong Lowellian, passed away peacefully on Thursday, September 14th, 2023 after a long battle with dementia.
Police Sgt. Mickey O’Keefe laughed when actor Mark Wahlberg and director David O. Russell asked him to play himself in the critically acclaimed and Academy Award nominated film The Fighter. The real life mentor and trainer of both “Irish” Micky Ward and his brother Dickie Ecklund, O’Keefe agreed to audition after Wahlberg told him that ...
Sep 17, 2023 · LOWELL >> When Mickey O’keefe was motivating someone, trying to get them to push themselves further, he would say, “You can quit when you’re dead.” It is a potent statement — recited recently by one of O’keefe’s four sons — that explains why the local legend lived the full life he did.
Feb 20, 2011 · Julia Malakie. LOWELL, Mass. — Becoming a celebrity overnight is a funny thing. Especially for a regular Joe like Mickey O'Keefe, a veteran Lowell police officer who never acted a lick in his...
Sep 17, 2023 · 'Mickey' Retired Lowell Police Sergeant and United States Army Veteran, Michael Timothy "Mickey" O'Keefe, age 75, a lifelong Lowellian, passed away peacefully on Thursday, September 14th,...
Actor: The Fighter. Mickey O'Keefe was born and raised in Lowell, Massachusetts, the youngest child in a family of Irish Catholic descent. He served on Lowell's police force for over 30 years (retiring as a sergeant), served in the military before that, and was a Golden Gloves champion in his younger days.
