Ethel Kennedy, a human rights advocate and the widow of former United States Lawyer Common Robert F. Kennedy, is recovering after struggling a stroke final week, her grandson mentioned in an announcement on Tuesday.
Ethel, 96, is the sister-in-law of former President John F. Kennedy.
“Sadly on Thursday morning she suffered a stroke in her sleep,” her grandson Former Rep. Joe Kennedy III, D-Massachusetts, mentioned on X. “She was dropped at an space hospital the place she is now receiving therapy.”
Ethel Kennedy attends the thirtieth Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Awards Ceremony, within the Russell Senate Workplace Constructing on Capitol Hill, Nov. 21, 2013 in Washington, D.C.
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“She is comfy, she is getting the perfect care potential, and she or he is surrounded by household,” Kennedy mentioned of his grandmother. “She is, as chances are you’ll know, a powerful lady who has led a remarkably fulfilling life. We’re right here taking care of her.”
The Kennedy household matriarch is mom to 11 youngsters, together with Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and has a number of grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
“She has had an incredible summer season and transition into fall,” Kennedy III wrote in his assertion. “She was in a position to get out on the water, go to the pier, and revel in many lunches and dinners with household.”
The previous congressman concluded his assertion by requesting privateness for the household.
Ethel based the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights nonprofit in her late husband’s honor a yr after he was assassinated whereas working for president in 1968.
She turned a widow on the age of 40 years previous with 10 youngsters and whereas pregnant with the couple’s eleventh youngster. She by no means remarried.
Amongst different human rights organizations she’s been concerned with, Ethel co-chaired the Coalition of Gun Management.
In 2014, former President Barack Obama introduced Ethel with the Congressional Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest honor for a civil, saying on the time, that her “love of household is matched solely by her devotion to her nation.”
“She’s an emblem of putting up with religion and enduring hope even within the face of unimaginable loss and unimaginable grief,” Obama mentioned through the White Home ceremony. “And he or she has touched the lives of numerous individuals all over the world together with her generosity and beauty.”
