Kara Kennedy
Birth Name:
Kara Anne Kennedy
Birth Date:
February 27, 1960
Birth Place:
Bronxville, New York
Death Date:
September 16, 2011
Place of Death:
The Sport and Health Club, 4000 Wisconsin Avenue, Washington D. C.
Age:
51
Cause of Death:
Heart attack
Cemetery Name:
Holyhood Cemetery
Claim to Fame:
Historical Figure
Kara Kennedy was born into a public family, the daughter of the Senator Edward M. Kennedy and Joan Bennett Kennedy, but was a private person who was able to live her life outside the public glare. After graduating from the National Cathedral School in 1978, Kara worked on her father’s 1980 Presidential campaign before matriculating at Tufts University. Following the receipt of her degree in 1983 she pursued a career in television, working at Fox News in New York and at an evening news magazine in Boston. She also successfully co-managed her father’s 1988 re-election campaign with her brother Patrick. Her lung cancer diagnosis came in 2002, and the prognosis was grim. But with her trademark determination, she went through aggressive surgery, chemotherapy and radiation, and had been in remission from her cancer since that time. Her family has speculated that her heart was weakened by the aggressive cancer treatments she received when she passed away at the young age of 51.
Cemetery Information:
Final Resting Place:
Holyhood Cemetery
584 Heath Street
Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, 02467
USA
North America
Map:
Map of Holyhood Cemetery in Brookline, Massachusetts
Grave Location:
Cushing Knoll, Kennedy Family PlotGrave Location Description
As you enter the cemetery, turn right and stay on Cross Or Western Avenue until it ends. Turn left and then a right on Carroll Avenue. Carroll Avenue turns into O’Connell Avenue and eventually ends right in front of the large Kennedy Memorial, visible on the corner.
Grave Location GPS
42.319052, -71.168406Photos:
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Videos Featuring Kara Kennedy:
Sen. Kennedy's Funeral: Responsorial Psalm by Kara Kennedy
Two Daughters of Political Figures Die, Both 51
Kara Kennedy dead at age 51
Patrick Kennedy addresses criticism from family on new memoir
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