Ethel Kennedy, the widow of Senator Robert F. Kennedy who raised their 11 youngsters after he was assassinated and remained devoted to social causes and the household’s legacy for many years thereafter, died on Thursday, her household stated. She was 96.
Kennedy had been hospitalized after struggling a stroke in her sleep on 3 October, her household stated.
“It’s with our hearts full of affection that we announce the passing of our wonderful grandmother,” Joe Kennedy III posted on X. “She died this morning from problems associated to a stroke suffered final week.”
The Kennedy matriarch, whose youngsters have been Kathleen, Joseph II, Robert Jr, David, Courtney, Michael, Kerry, Christopher, Max, Douglas and Rory, was one of many final remaining member of a technology that included President John F Kennedy. Her household stated she had just lately loved seeing lots of her family members, earlier than falling ailing.
“She has had a fantastic summer time and transition into fall,” stated a household assertion, issued after she was hospitalized. “Day by day she loved time together with her youngsters, nieces, nephews, grandchildren and great-grandchildren. She was in a position to get out on the water, go to the pier and luxuriate in many lunches and dinners with household. It has been a present to all of us and to her as effectively.”
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