Ethel Kennedy Dead at 96

Ethel Kennedy, the widow of Robert F. Kennedy Sr., is lifeless.

Ethel died Thursday morning on account of problems associated to the stroke she suffered final week … the well-known household simply introduced.

As we reported … Ethel had been hospitalized after struggling a stroke in her sleep.

The Kennedys are remembering Ethel as “a devout Catholic and daily communicant.”

Ethel had 11 kids with RFK and was pregnant when he was assassinated in 1968, when he was operating for president. Their kids embrace Kathleen Kennedy, Joe Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

She was additionally the sister-in-law of former President John F. Kennedy … who was additionally assassinated. A yr after RFK’s assassination, Ethel based the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights nonprofit in his honor.

Ethel acquired the Congressional Medal of Freedom again in 2014, when Barack Obama was president.

The Kennedys say they “are comforted in knowing she is reunited with the love of her life, our father, Robert F. Kennedy; her children David and Michael; her daughter-in-law Mary; her grandchildren Maeve and Saoirse; and her great-grandchildren Gideon and Josie.”

Ethel is survived by 9 kids, 34 grandchildren, and 24 great-grandchildren.