Later Life
In 1984, the federal courthouse in Pendleton, Oregon was renamed in his honor and is now the John F. Kilkenny U.S. Post Office and Courthouse. While on the bench, Kilkenny worked to preserve Portland, Oregon’s Pioneer Courthouse, receiving an award for this work in 1974 from the American Association for State and Local History.
Kilkenny was a student of Irish American history, and wrote Shamrocks and Shepherds: The Irish of Morrow County (1981), about the history of Irish settlement in Eastern Oregon. In the same year Kilkenny received an award of merit from the Oregon State Bar.
Judge Kilkenny donated funds to both Blue Mountain Community College and his alma mater, Notre Dame law school.
Kilkenny died in Beaverton, Oregon, at the age of 93 on February 17, 1995. He was buried is at Olney Cemetery in Pendleton.
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