The Kennedy matriarch, who dedicated her life to social causes and her family’s legacy, passed away after suffering a stroke ...

Ethel Kennedy, who died this week, tried to control the sprawling political clan after the death of her husband Robert ...

Kennedy’s parents, coal magnate George Skakel and his wife, Ann Brannack Skakel, were killed in a 1955 plane crash. Kennedy met her future husband in 1945 at a ski resort in Quebec. At the time ...

Kennedy was born Ethel Skakel on April 11, 1928, in Chicago, the sixth of seven children of coal magnate George Skakel and Ann Brannack Skakel, a devout Roman Catholic. She grew up in a 31-room ...

Ethel Skakel was born in Chicago on April 11, 1928 to George Skakel, a coal executive and a Protestant, and his wife, Ann Brannack, a devout Catholic. The family — Ethel had six siblings ...

Ethel Kennedy, the wife of the late US Sen Robert F. Kennedy and a mainstay in American politics for decades, died on October ...

Two of her sons, David and Michael, are buried in the Kennedy Family Plot at Holyhood Cemetery in Brookline. Holyhood is also ...