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Article: Rose Kennedy Dies at 104 // An Indomitable Spirit Buoyed Famous Mother
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- January 23, 1995
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Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, 104, the mother of the 35th president of
the United States and the matriarch of the Kennedy political dynasty,
died Sunday at 104.
Mrs. Kennedy died at the Kennedy family home in Hyannisport
Mass., of complications from pneumonia, a family statement said.
The center of Mrs. Kennedy's life was her family and the Roman
Catholic Church. Her career was her nine children, and she devoted
herself to them with the energy of someone schooled in the tradition
that being a wife and mother is a woman's highest calling.
She insisted on set mealtimes and led them in discussions of
affairs of the day or religious topics. She took them on walks to
historical sites in Boston, ...