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Tuesday, August 11, 2009
EUNICE KENNEDY-SHRIVER, ANOTHER KENNEDY SAYS BYE-BYE!
Dead at 88 and she was a Kennedy; hurray! Gladly enough, it was good old-age related causes and not the fabled 'Curse of the Kennedy' that facilitated her exit. The fifth among nine of the original Kennedy siblings born to Joseph P. Kennedy and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy of Brookline, Massachusetts. A family clan of Massachusetts that produced an American President, John Fitzgerald Kennedy; two US Senators Robert F. Kennedy and Edward Kennedy; an in-law who is a governor of the State of California Arnold Schwarzenegger; several others including legislators, humanitarians and activists! She was married to a former vice presidential candidate R. Sargent Shriver. She founded the Special Olympics in 1968 to demonstrate that the mentally challenged can be competitive as well; and have the capacity to lead rich and productive lives without necessarily being limited by the walls of their confining institutions? To her credit, mentally challenged people were made inclusive and America's view of them was forced to change from the institutionalized patients, to families, friends, neighbors and athletes? Her name was Eunice Kennedy Shriver and she died today at a Cape Cod hospital, surrounded by her husband, five children and 19 grandchildren to cheer her on to eternity? What a fruitful life on the limelight, Eunice lived!
A third generation Irish-American Kennedy, her grandparents were Patrick J. Kennedy(1858) and Mary Augusta Hickey; her parents were businessman and American Ambassador to the United Kingdom Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. (1888) and Rose Fitzgerald (1890); her brothers and sisters include, in order of seniority:- Joseph Patrick Kennedy, Jr. (1915), President John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917), Rosemary Kennedy (1918), Kathleen Agnes Kennedy (1920), Patricia Kennedy (1924), Senator Robert Francis Kennedy (1925), Jean Ann Kennedy (1928) and Senator Edward Moore Kennedy (1932)! With her death, sister Jean Kennedy Smith and brother Edward Kennedy are now all that is left of the original Kennedy Mahicans? Eunice is survived directly by her husband, Sargent, a daughter Maria Shriver-Schwarzenegger, sons Robert, Timothy; Mark and Anthony. Brother Edward Kennedy and sister Jean Kennedy-Smith, 19 grandchildren as well as several nieces and nephews with Kennedy blood running in their veins. Icheoku says, as you now join other gone Kennedys in heaven, so long Madam Special Olympics!
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