CENTERVILLE, Mass. — Members of the Kennedy household gathered Monday for the funeral of Ethel Kennedy, the spouse of the late Sen. Robert F. Kennedy.
Ethel Kennedy, who raised their 11 kids after her husband was assassinated and remained devoted to social causes and the household’s legacy, died on Thursday at age 96.
Monday’s funeral, which was closed to the general public, passed off at Our Woman of Victory, in Centerville, Massachusetts, about 28 miles (45 kilometers) north of Boston.
Mourners gathered on the church underneath a cool grey sky. Ethel Kennedy died following issues associated to a stroke suffered earlier this month.
“Together with a lifetime’s work in social justice and human rights, our mom leaves behind 9 kids, 34 grandchildren and 24 great-great-grandchildren, together with quite a few nieces and nephews, all of whom love her dearly,” the household assertion stated in saying her loss of life.
President Joe Biden referred to as her “an American icon — a matriarch of optimism and ethical braveness, an emblem of resilience and repair.”
The Kennedy matriarch, mom to Kathleen, Joseph II, Robert Jr., David, Courtney, Michael, Kerry, Christopher, Max, Douglas and Rory, was one of many final remaining members of a household technology that included President John F. Kennedy. Her household stated she had not too long ago loved seeing lots of her kinfolk earlier than falling sick.
A millionaire’s daughter who married the long run senator and legal professional common in 1950, Ethel Kennedy had endured extra loss of life by the age of 40, for the entire world to see, than most individuals would in a lifetime.
She was by Robert F. Kennedy’s aspect when he was fatally shot within the kitchen of the Ambassador Lodge in Los Angeles on June 5, 1968, simply after profitable California’s Democratic presidential main. Her brother-in-law had been assassinated in Dallas lower than 5 years earlier.
Ethel Kennedy went on to discovered the Robert F. Kennedy Heart for Justice and Human Rights quickly after her husband’s loss of life and advocated for causes together with gun management and human rights. She not often spoke about her husband’s assassination.
