Carolyn Jeanne BESSETTEAge: 331966–1999
- Name
- Carolyn Jeanne BESSETTE
- Given names
- Carolyn Jeanne
- Surname
- BESSETTE
- Married Name
- Carolyn Jeanne BESSETTE-KENNEDY
| Birth | 7 January 1966 White Plains, Westchester County, New York, USA |
| Death of a father | 7 May 1986 (Age 20)
father -
William BESSETTE
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| Marriage | John Fitzgerald KENNEDY Jr - View family 21 September 1996 (Age 30) Cumberland Island, Camden County, Georgia, USA |
| Death of a husband | 16 July 1999 (on the date of death) over the Atlantic Ocean
husband -
John Fitzgerald KENNEDY Jr
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| Death of a sister | 16 July 1999 (on the date of death) Martha's Vineyard, Dukes County, Massachusetts, USA
elder sister -
Lauren Gail BESSETTE
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| Relationship 16-20 | Carolyn Jeanne BESSETTE KENNEDY is your third great aunt's first cousin four times removed's wife's first cousin once removed's wife.
Source:
Geni.com
Publication: MyHeritage Ltd
Citation details: 19 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 |
| Cremation of a husband | 16 July 1999 (on the date of death) Martha's Vineyard, Dukes County, Massachusetts, USA
husband -
John Fitzgerald KENNEDY Jr
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| Death | 16 July 1999 (Age 33) over the Atlantic Ocean
Source:
Wikipedia
Publication: the free encyclopedia
Text: Socialite and wife of John F. Kennedy, Jr. She gained a certain notoriety herself due to public interest and attention to her husband. Born in White Plains, New York, she was the youngest daughter of Dr. William J. and Ann Messina Bessette. Her father was a surgeon and her mother an administrator in the New York public school system. She grew up in affluent Greenwich, Connecticut, attending St. Mary's High School, where in her senior year, she was voted "All Around Beautiful Person." In 1988, after graduating from Boston University, she went to work at a Calvin Klein store in Boston. With her good looks, she soon became a model in New York City, and then became a publicist for Calvin Klein Company, where she is supposed to have met Kennedy while he was shopping for suits. As they dated, they became instant targets of the paparazzi, which she reportedly hated. Although pursued by the paparazzi, and the constant target of tabloid press, she non-the-less decided to marry JFK Jr, which she did on September 21, 1996, on secluded Cumberland Island, Georgia, in an attempt to elude the anticipated media frenzy. After a honeymoon in Turkey, the couple returned to the US, where the media immediately crowned her "Camelot's New Queen." While most of her press reviews complemented Carolyn on her grace and pose, she reportedly hated the comparison with her mother-in-law, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. Carolyn accompanied her older sister, Lauren, and her 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 while Carolyn and her 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 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 US 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 US 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. Having left no will, Carolyn'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. Carolyn's ashes were scattered at sea off the coast of Martha's Vineyard, along with those of JFK Jr and her sister Lauren, 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 Carolyn BESSETTE-KENNEDY (1966–1999) |
| Cremation | 16 July 1999 (on the date of death) 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: Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy
Original Name Carolyn Jeanne Bessette Birth 7 Jan 1966 White Plains, Westchester County, New York, USA Death 16 Jul 1999 (aged 33) Marthas Vineyard, Dukes County, Massachusetts, USA 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 Lauren Gail Bessette 1964–1999 Spouse John Fitzgerald Kennedy 1960–1999 (m. 1996) Maintained by: Find a Grave Added: 23 Jul 1999 Find a Grave Memorial 5948 |
| Reference number | K74 |
| Last change | 9 November 2022 - 15:54:51 by: Site Admin |
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| father |
William BESSETTE
Birth 15 January 1906 Reference number K Death 7 May 1986 (Age 80) |
| #1 herself |
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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| 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 elder sister |
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 herself |
Birth 7 January 1966 White Plains, Westchester County, New York, USA Reference number K74 Death 16 July 1999 (Age 33) over the Atlantic Ocean |
| Family with John Fitzgerald KENNEDY Jr - View family |
| husband |
Birth 25 November 1960 Washington, District Of Columbia, USA Reference number K55 Death 16 July 1999 (Age 38) over the Atlantic Ocean |
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5 years herself |
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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Marriage: 21 September 1996 — Cumberland Island, Camden County, Georgia, USA |
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