She was never afraid of a struggle because Priscilla O’Connell-Key saw everything through with "stubborn perseverance," her son said. "I never heard her say ‘man I really wish that I had stuck with that,’ she always stuck with whatever she did, to the point where it was almost fictional," said Paul Franzese, of Wantagh. Priscilla O’Connell-Key was surrounded by family when she died on April 30. She was 80. The eldest of six girls, O’Connell-Key was born in Brooklyn on Jan.