“It is with our hearts full of love that we announce the passing of our amazing grandmother,” Joe Kennedy III said on X. “She died this morning from complications related to a stroke suffered last week.”
Ethel Kennedy, whose late husband was assassinated while campaigning for the presidency in 1968, raised 11 children including Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., who recently ended a failed bid for the White House.
Kennedy’s life was marred by periodic tragedy. In addition to her husband’s death, her parents were killed in a plane crash in 1955 and her brother died in a crash in 1966, while her son David died of a drug overdose and Michael Kennedy, another son, was killed in a skiing accident.
Funeral services have not been announced.
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