Mary Kathleen RICHARDSONAge: 521959–2012
- Name
- Mary Kathleen RICHARDSON
- Given names
- Mary Kathleen
- Surname
- RICHARDSON
- Married Name
- Mary Kathleen KENNEDY
| Birth | 4 October 1959 Bayonne, Hudson County, New Jersey, USA |
| Marriage | Robert Francis KENNEDY Jr - View family 15 April 1994 (Age 34) Hudson River, New York, New York, USA
Source:
Geni.com
Publication: MyHeritage Ltd
Text: Married onboard a boart, surrounded by the vast majest of the Hudson River, followed a celebratory Roman Catholic Mass.
They had four children: Conor Richardson Kennedy, Kyra LeMoyne Kennedy, William Finbar Kennedy, Aidan Caohman Vieques Kennedy. |
| Relationship 16-20 | Mary Kathleen RICHARDSON KENNEDY is your third great aunt's first cousin four times removed's wife's uncle's 2nd wife
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Geni.com
Publication: MyHeritage Ltd
Citation details: 17 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 →Mary Kathleen RICHARDSON KENNEDY his wife |
| Death | 16 May 2012 (Age 52) Mount Kisco, Westchester County, New York, USA
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Geni.com
Publication: MyHeritage Ltd
Text: RFK Jr. rejects blame during eulogy at wife Mary Richardson Kennedy’s funeral By Lorena Mongelli New York Post May 20, 2012 4:00am Don’t blame Bobby. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. shamelessly told a crowd of mourners at tragic wife Mary Richardson Kennedy’s funeral yesterday that her suicide was not his fault. “I know I did everything I could to help her,” Kennedy said in his eulogy at St. Patrick Church in Bedford, where attendees included Chevy Chase, Larry David, Glenn Close and Susan Sarandon. Kennedy, who was raspy and appeared tired, told the crowd that someone told him not to blame himself for Mary’s shocking suicide last week. “The day before she died, she called me and said, ‘You know me better than anyone in the world,’ ” he said. “She said, ‘I was such a good girl.’ I said, ‘I know you are and you still are.’ She really fought so hard. She had these demons, and she didn’t deserve it.” Mary, 52, hanged herself Wednesday in the barn of her Westchester mansion. Kennedy spent most of his eulogy lavishing praise on his wife — although he noted that she harbored a grudge against him. She was a SoHo girl . . . She blamed me for taking her away from her profession [to raise a family],” he said, referring to her former career as an architectural designer in Manhattan. The memorial came a day after a bitter family feud between RFK Jr. and his estranged wife’s family over who would claim her body. Her six siblings didn’t attend the funeral. Mourners also included Caroline Kennedy, Joe Kennedy, Edward James Olmos, John McEnroe and Andre Balázs. The church — where Mary’s four children, Conor, 18, Kyra, 17, Finn, 15, and Aiden, 11, had their first communions — was packed, with the crowd spilling into the lobby. RFK Jr. remembered his wife as an adventurous woman with selfless spirit and dedication to her family. She was the most extraordinary woman I ever met,” he said. “I had feelings for her that I will never have for another human being.” “Her greatest quality was her courage,” he added. His eulogy followed a heartfelt speech by Larry David and longtime friend and sister-in-law Kerry Kennedy. Kerry punctuated the somber funeral with laughter — recalling river rafting with Mary, when they were stranded on a sandbar in Colombia in 1977. She said Mary put all her clothes in plastic bags to keep them dry but ended up giving them to pals while she wore soaking-wet clothes. “She loved the sense of adventure,” Kerry said, adding, “She was beaming the day [her son Finn] got arrested for riding the conveyor belt on the baggage claim.” She also recounted how Mary once convinced Andy Warhol to help raise funds for the campaign of her husband’s uncle, Sen. Edward Kennedy, by donating a painting Westchester police escorted the hearse to the church a little after 10 a.m., and RFK Jr. and the couple’s children followed in a black Lincoln Town Car. Family matriarch Ethel Kennedy, a veteran of such grim family gatherings, rode behind them inside a black SUV. The wooden casket had no flowers on it and was carried by her children, one of her sisters and the gardener who discovered her body hanging inside the family’s barn. RFK Jr. did not carry the coffin inside, where Mary’s body was rested between large vases of white roses and delphiniums. Daughter Kyra read a psalm and son Aiden helped present gifts. When the memorial ended at 12:45 p.m., Robert Kennedy Jr., his sons Conor and Aiden, Kathleen “Kick” Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy III served as pallbearers as they loaded the casket into a hearse for a four-hour drive to Mary’s final resting place, St. Francis Xavier Cemetery in Centerville, Mass. Sargent and Eunice Shriver — a Kennedy sister — are also buried there. At the Massachusetts burial last night, 65 mourners dressed in black gathered around the grave. Mourners drove to the cemetery in their own cars, including Ted Kennedy Jr., who carried a bouquet of white flowers. RFK Jr. stood by and watched as his children bowed their heads and bent over to touch the casket. Before the funeral, Kerry choked back tears as she addressed a crowd of reporters. “Mary suffered from depression, and it’s a disease that so many, many, many Americans suffer from,” she said. “That’s what Mary did her whole life. She was battling those demons and keeping them out of the paradise that was Mary.” On Friday, RFK Jr. bought eight plots at St. Francis Xavier Cemetery, including one for Mary, Maki Monument Co. told The Post. Mary’s grave is positioned in a new row, a short distance from the Kennedy graves. The Richardsons fought in court Friday to stop her from being buried in the heart of Kennedy country, but divorce lawyer Patricia Hennessey failed to convince a judge to let them take control of her body. Additional reporting by Erin Calabrese and Marcia Scott Harrison MaryKathleen RICHARDSON (1959–2012)
Source:
Find A Grave
Publication: Find a Grave Memorial (Ancestry)
Text: She was an architectural designer who has worked for the firm of Diana Kellogg, the prestigious Parrish Hadley Associates, and leading designer Annabelle Selldorf. She was Co-author of 'The Kennedy Green House', 2010 Umbrage Editions. Mary Richardson Kennedy was remembered as a best friend who lived life to the fullest while battling depression. "She was brilliant and she was beautiful and she cared so very deeply about everybody around her. She loved her children more than anything else. She was battling those demons. She was an angel who was brought to live with us here on Earth. God just brought her back up to heaven and said. ‘You don't have to fight for me anymore'" , said longtime friend and sister-in-law Kerry Kennedy.
She married Robert F. Kennedy Jr in 1994. The prominent environmental lawyer is the third of 11 children born to Ethel and Sen. Robert F. Kennedy. A private memorial service was held Saturday, May 19th, at St Patrick's Roman Catholic Church in Bedford. |
| Burial | after 16 May 2012 Centerville, Saint Francis Xavier Cemetery, Barnstable County, Massachusetts, USA
Source:
Find A Grave
Publication: Find a Grave Memorial (Ancestry)
Text: Mary Kathleen Richardson Kennedy Birth 4 Oct 1959 Bayonne, Hudson County, New Jersey, USA Death 16 May 2012 (aged 52) Mount Kisco, Westchester County, New York, USA Burial Saint Francis Xavier Cemetery Centerville, Barnstable County, Massachusetts, USA Plot In July 2012 Mary Kennedy's body was moved from it's space next to her Shriver in-laws to a new spot near the cemetery entrance Created by: Jim Childers Added: 16 May 2012 Find a Grave Memorial ID: 90236626 Mary Kathleen RICHARDSON (1959–2012) |
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| Last change | 9 November 2022 - 21:05:47 by: Site Admin |
| Family with Robert Francis KENNEDY Jr - View family |
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Birth 17 January 1954 Washington, District Of Columbia, USA Reference number K25 |
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6 years herself |
Birth 4 October 1959 Bayonne, Hudson County, New Jersey, USA Reference number K178 Death 16 May 2012 (Age 52) Mount Kisco, Westchester County, New York, USA |
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Marriage: 15 April 1994 — Hudson River, New York, New York, USA |
| Robert Francis KENNEDY Jr + Emily Ruth BLACK - View family |
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Birth 17 January 1954 Washington, District Of Columbia, USA Reference number K25 |
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4 years husband's wife |
Emily Ruth BLACK
Birth 15 October 1957 Bedford, Lawrence County, Indiana, USA Reference number K110 |
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Marriage: 3 April 1982 — Bloomington, Monroe County, Indiana, USA |
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2 years #1 step-son |
Birth 2 September 1984 Mount Kisco, Westchester County, New York, USA Reference number K135 |
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4 years #2 step-daughter |
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