Thursday, October 10, 2024 - Ethel Kennedy, who lost her husband, Robert F. Kennedy, and brother-in-law, President John F. Kennedy, to assassins' bullets, d!ed Thursday, October 10 at age 96.
Kennedy died from complications from a stroke she
suffered last week, former Rep. Joe Kennedy III, D-Mass., a grandson, said
in a statement posted on X.
"It is with our hearts full of love that we announce
the passing of our amazing grandmother, Ethel Kennedy," the former
congressman said.
Joe Kennedy wrote that his grandmother "was a devout
Catholic and a daily communicant."
"We are comforted in knowing she is reunited with the
love of her life, our father, Robert F. Kennedy," he wrote.
"Along with a lifetime’s work in social justice and
human rights, our mother leaves behind nine children, 34 grandchildren, and 24
great-grandchildren, along with numerous nieces and nephews, all of whom love
her dearly."
Kennedy died some six weeks after her third child, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., ended his presidential campaign and outraged his family by endorsing former President Donald Trump.
Born Ethel Skakel on April 11, 1928, in Chicago, Kennedy's
life was marked by tragedy even before Sirhan Sirhan made her a widow in 1968
by gunning down her husband while he was running for president.
Ethel's parents, coal magnate George Skakel and Ann Brannack
Skakel, were killed in a 1955 plane crash.
Ethel met her future husband in 1945 at a ski resort in
Quebec. At the time, he was dating her older sister, Patricia, according
to an official biography at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library
and Museum.
Five years later, "Bobby and Ethel" were married,
and their first child, Kathleen, was born on July 4, 1951.
Six months after RFK was killed, Kennedy gave birth to their
last child Rory. They had 11 children.
Around that time, Kennedy founded the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights and threw herself into working for some of the same causes her husband had championed.
For her efforts, Kennedy was awarded in 2014 the
Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama.
Kennedy never remarried, although in the 1970s she was often
seen on the arm of singer Andy Williams, a family friend who denied they
were romantically involved.
In the years after RFK's assassination, Kennedy's life was
marked by more misfortune.
In 1997, her son Michael died in a skiing accident. Then in
1984, her son David was found dead of a drug overdose in a Palm Beach, Florida,
hotel room.
She is survived by 9 children, 34 grandchildren, 24
great-grandchildren.
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