Lauren Gail BESSETTEAge: 341964–1999
- Name
- Lauren Gail BESSETTE
- Given names
- Lauren Gail
- Surname
- BESSETTE
| Birth | 5 November 1964 White Plains, Westchester County, New York, USA |
| Birth of a sister | 7 January 1966 (Age 14 months) White Plains, Westchester County, New York, USA
younger sister -
Carolyn Jeanne BESSETTE
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| Death of a sister | 16 July 1999 (on the date of death) over the Atlantic Ocean
younger sister -
Carolyn Jeanne BESSETTE
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| Relationship 16-20 | Lauren Gail BESSETTE, Twin is your third great aunt's first cousin four times removed's wife's first cousin once removed's wife's sister.
Source:
Geni.com
Publication: MyHeritage Ltd
Citation details: 20 connections Text: Shortest in-law relationship
You →Ruth ALTER COHEN your mother →Frieda DRUKARSH ALTER her mother →Raizel (Galia) BARANSKI DRUKARSH her mother →Avraham (Tzvi) Hersh BARANSKI her father →Szymon BARANSKI his brother →Hinda KLEJNMINTZ BARANSKI his wife →Tauba (Tybie) DRUCZJAN KLEJNMINTZ her mother →Liba DRACZANA SPIEGEL her sister →Chana Sura SPIEGEL CIESIELSKA her daughter →Jack CIESELSKI CHELSKY her son →Dr. Morris Bernard CHELSKY his son →<private> CHELSKY MCKEAN his daughter →<private> MCKEAN her son →Maeve KENNEDY MCKEAN his wife →Kathleen KENNEDY TOWNSEND her mother →Robert F. KENNEDY, U.S. Attorney General her father →John F. KENNEDY, 35th President of the USA his brother → John F. KENNEDY, Jr. his son →Carolyn Jeanne BESSETTE KENNEDY his wife →Lauren Gail BESSETTE, Twin her sister |
| Cremation of a sister | 16 July 1999 (on the date of death) Martha's Vineyard, Dukes County, Massachusetts, USA
younger sister -
Carolyn Jeanne BESSETTE
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| Death | 16 July 1999 (Age 34) Martha's Vineyard, Dukes County, Massachusetts, USA
Source:
Geni.com
Publication: MyHeritage Ltd
Text: Sister-in-law of socialite figure John F. Kennedy Jr., she and her younger sister Carolyn were killed when the plane they were traveling in crashed into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts. The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) later determined that the probable cause was the pilot's failure to maintain control during descent over water at night, due to spatial disorientation. The pilot, brother-in-law John F. Kennedy Jr., was not certified to fly Instrument Flight Rules (IFR), and was not well trained for visual landings at night over water. Born in White Plains, New York, she was an identical twin with her sister, Lisa Ann Bessette, and the first children of her parents, Dr. William J. and Ann Messina Bessette. She was raised in affluent Greenwich, Connecticut, attending St. Mary's High School. After high school, she attended William Smith College, New York, where she majored in Economics, and would later receive a Master of Business Administration from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. She worked most of her adult life as a Senior Investment Banker specializing in Asian financial markets at Morgan Stanley Dean Witter in Manhattan. Lauren accompanied her younger sister, Carolyn, and Carolyn's husband, John F. Kennedy Jr. on his private plane while they went to a Kennedy family wedding of his cousin, Rory Kennedy, at Hyannisport, Massachusetts; Lauren was to be dropped off first at Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts while her sister and husband proceeded on to Hyannisport. The aircraft, a six seat, single engine Piper Saratoga II HP, departed Essex County Airport in Fairfield, New Jersey for Martha's Vineyard in the late afternoon, with John F. Kennedy Jr. at the controls, and crashed shortly after dark just off the coast of Martha's Vineyard. When the plane failed to arrive as scheduled, a search was begun, but by the next day, President Bill Clinton authorized the U.S. Navy to enter the search on the grounds that the missing JFK Jr. was a national figure (as private citizens, they were normally not authorized to have the U.S. Government search for them). The plane was found approximately seven miles offshore, in approximately 100 feet of water, with all three occupants believed to have been killed instantly when it hit the water. Leaving no will, Lauren's mother, Ann Messina Freeman (she had divorced her husband several years earlier, and remarried to Dr. Richard Freeman, an orthopedic surgeon), received permission from the Manhattan court to become the administrator of her daughter's estate; she later successfully sued the Kennedy estate for wrongful death with an undisclosed out-of-court settlement. Lauren's ashes were scattered at sea off the coast of Martha's Vineyard, along with those of JFK Jr. and her sister Carolyn, in a funeral service on the Navy's USS Briscoe, one of the ships sent to search for the missing trio. Bio by: Kit and Morgan Benson Lauren Gail BESSETTE (1964–1999 |
| Cremation | after 16 July 1999 Martha's Vineyard, Dukes County, Massachusetts, USA Address: Ashes scattered at sea, Specifically: Cremated remains scattered off the coast of Martha's Vineyard from the USS Briscoe
Source:
Find A Grave
Publication: Find a Grave Memorial (Ancestry)
Text: Lauren Gail Bessette Famous memorial
BIRTH 5 Nov 1964 White Plains, Westchester County, New York, USA DEATH 16 Jul 1999 (aged 34) BURIAL Cremated, Ashes scattered at sea. Specifically: Cremated remains scattered off the coast of Martha's Vineyard from the US Navy Ship USS Briscoe Family Members Parents William Joseph Bessette 1928–2014 Anne Marie Messina Freeman 1939–2007 Siblings Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy 1966–1999 Maintained by: Find a Grave Added: 23 Jul 1999 Find a Grave Memorial ID: 5949 |
| Reference number | K173 |
| Last change | 9 November 2022 - 18:50:33 by: Site Admin |
| Family with parents - View family |
| father |
Birth 27 November 1928 New London, New London County, Connecticut, USA Reference number K169 Death 21 November 2014 (Age 85) Massachusetts, USA |
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11 years mother |
Anne Marie MESSINA
Birth 5 August 1939 Rhode Island, USA Reference number K170 Death 24 April 2007 (Age 67) Monroe County, New York, USA |
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Marriage: 29 June 1963 — White Plains, Westchester County, New York, USA |
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16 months #1 herself |
Birth 5 November 1964 White Plains, Westchester County, New York, USA Reference number K173 Death 16 July 1999 (Age 34) Martha's Vineyard, Dukes County, Massachusetts, USA |
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14 months #2 younger sister |
Birth 7 January 1966 White Plains, Westchester County, New York, USA Reference number K74 Death 16 July 1999 (Age 33) over the Atlantic Ocean |
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