Saturday, October 12, 2024 - Former US presidential candidate, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. took to social media late Thursday night, October 10 to honour his mother, Ethel Kennedy, Widow of the late Robert F. Kennedy and mother of 11 children after she died at the age of 96.
"My mom, Ethel Skakel
Kennedy, passed peacefully into Heaven this morning. She was 96. She died in
Boston surrounded by many of her nine surviving children and her friends,"
RFK Jr. wrote on X.
Ethel Kennedy had 11 children with her late husband, Robert
F. Kennedy, before his assassination in 1968. She was pregnant at the time of
his death with their 11th child, a daughter named Rory.
"God gave her 34
grandchildren, 24 great-grandchildren, and the energy to give them all the
attention they required. He blessed her with a rich and eventful life. Even as
she declined in recent months, she never lost her sense of fun, her humour, her
spark, her spunk, and her joie de vivre. She wrung joy from every moment, but
for 56 years she has spoken with yearning of the day she would reunite with her
beloved husband," RFK Jr.'s tribute reads.
After her husband's death, Ethel founded the Robert F.
Kennedy Human Rights organization later in 1968.
"She is with him now, with my brothers David and
Michael, with her parents, her six siblings, all of whom predeceased her, and
her "adopted" Kennedy siblings Jack, Kick, Joe, Teddy, Eunice, Jean,
Rosemary, and Patricia," continues her son's post.
"From the day she met my father, her new family
observed that she was "more Kennedy than the Kennedys."
"My mother invented tough love, and she could be hard on her children when we didn’t live up to her expectations. But she was also intensely loyal, and we always knew that she would stand fiercely behind us when we came under attack by others," wrote Kennedy.
RFK Jr. finished his tribute saying, "I credit her for all my virtues. I’m grateful for her generosity in overlooking my faults."
Ethel Kennedy suffered a stroke on October 3 and was
hospitalized prior to her death, according to her family.
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