Ethel Kennedy, widow of Robert Kennedy and matriarch of celebrated political family, dies at 96

She enjoyed exuberant highs and endured heartbreaking losses.

Ethel Kennedy, a matriarch of America's astir celebrated governmental household who carried connected her hubby Robert F. Kennedy's combat for civilian justness aft witnessing his assassination connected the nighttime helium won the 1968 Califonia Democratic statesmanlike primary, has died astatine the property of 96.

"It is with our hearts afloat of emotion that we denote the passing of our astonishing grandmother, Ethel Kennedy," erstwhile Rep. Joe Kennedy III, her grandson, announced Thursday. "She died this greeting from complications related to a changeable suffered past week."

FILE - Ethel Kennedy, widow of Senator Robert F. Kennedy, attends the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights awards ceremonial connected Capitol Hill successful Washington, Tuesday, June 5, 2018.

AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File

The parent of 7 sons and 4 daughters -- including 1 she was large with erstwhile her hubby was killed -- Ethel Kennedy, who ne'er remarried, raised her children to unrecorded up to the Kennedy creed touted by her murdered brother-in-law, President John F. Kennedy, that "to those who are fixed overmuch much volition beryllium required."

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