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Kara Kennedy, Daughter Of Sen. Ted Kennedy, Has Died At Age 51
http://boston.cbslocal.com ^

Posted on 09/17/2011 8:38:09 AM PDT by Red Badger

BOSTON (CBS) – Kara Kennedy, the only daughter of the late Senator Edward Kennedy, has died.

A Kennedy family friend confirmed to WBZ NewsRadio 1030 that the 51-year-old Kennedy passed away after reportedly suffering a heart attack.

In 2009, she accepted the Medal of Freedom on behalf of her father, who was home battling cancer.

Kennedy battled lung cancer in the past, but her cancer had been in remission since 2003.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: heartattack; karakennedy; kennedy
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To: napscoordinator

Whatever happened to Joan Kennedy (her mother?) after Uncle Ted was through with her?


61 posted on 09/17/2011 9:35:44 AM PDT by spiderfern
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To: tlb; Pelham; dixiechick2000

their incidence of early death is much higher than most today...

Joe Jr in WWII in 20s

JFK..40 or so

RFK about the same

David..20s...too much “boy”...long time doper

another RFK kid....skiing a few years back

some others too I think..

but some of the women live old...grandma was old and Ethel...a Skakel actually is old...Teddy was old considering

why do I know this...I have never liked any of them...I grew up where when JFK died white folks were ambivalent ..to be polite about it


62 posted on 09/17/2011 9:36:59 AM PDT by wardaddy (, Dick Cheney ....get his book...he should have been President)
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To: wardaddy

She might have been a smoker before her lung cancer. I don’t know. Someone on the thread said that cancer treatment damages the heart. That may have been so in her case.


63 posted on 09/17/2011 9:39:37 AM PDT by DJ MacWoW (America! The wolves are here! What will you do?)
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To: DJ MacWoW

Rockville, MD? That’s where I grew up. So where did the kids go to school?


64 posted on 09/17/2011 9:54:25 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: nhwingut
As much as I despise this family’s politics they are cursed.

Cursed? Cursed with overconsumption of alcohol, like many other families. Alcohol overconsumption is very bad for overall health.

65 posted on 09/17/2011 9:55:23 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (To ACLU & its plaintiffs: Stop dragging the public into your personal struggle w/ God. -Mark Baisley)
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To: spiderfern

Wikipedia on Joan Kennedy:
>>Her later years have been shaped by chronic alcoholism, which had appeared during her marriage. It escalated with sporadic, uneven sobriety, repeated drunk-driving arrests, court-ordered rehabilitation, and a return to drinking. This ultimately led to kidney damage, with the possibility of dialysis and protracted complications from increasingly strict legal guardianship.
In 2005, she was hospitalized with a concussion and a broken shoulder after being found lying in a Boston street near her home.

>>In July 2004, her son Edward had been appointed her legal guardian; in 2005 her children were granted temporary guardianship...She was diagnosed with breast cancer and underwent surgery in October 2005.
Apart from a brief relationship shortly after her divorce, she has neither remarried nor pursued another relationship.


66 posted on 09/17/2011 9:56:02 AM PDT by raccoonradio
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To: DJ MacWoW

My uncle (my mom’s last living sibling) is 93. He is as funny and sharp as ever and I love going to visit with him.


67 posted on 09/17/2011 9:57:15 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: ken5050
Link Between Alcohol And Cancer Explained: Alcohol Activates Cellular Changes That Make Tumor Cells Spread
68 posted on 09/17/2011 10:00:07 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (To ACLU & its plaintiffs: Stop dragging the public into your personal struggle w/ God. -Mark Baisley)
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To: MamaB

I am so sorry. God bless you and help you deal with the grief.


69 posted on 09/17/2011 10:00:15 AM PDT by rep-always
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To: MinorityRepublican

I don’t know. I didn’t do a search on that.


70 posted on 09/17/2011 10:00:24 AM PDT by DJ MacWoW (America! The wolves are here! What will you do?)
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To: ilovesarah2012

Yeah I love talking to my 90 year old Uncle.....when I can catch him at home. :-)


71 posted on 09/17/2011 10:02:20 AM PDT by DJ MacWoW (America! The wolves are here! What will you do?)
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To: ken5050
Thanks...she was happily married for 25 years..two teenage kids....prayers for her family..and she was totally out of the public eye..not a hint of a scandal..

Sort of the white sheep of the family.

72 posted on 09/17/2011 10:08:49 AM PDT by Graybeard58
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To: All

Kara as a tot w/ brother Teddy, Mom and Dad.

Kara as a bride.

Kara Anne Kennedy Allen (b. 27 February 1960) is the only daughter of Senator Edward M. Kennedy and Virginia Joan Bennett. Born in Bronxville, New York, Allen graduated in 1982 from Tufts University. On September 9, 1990 she married architect and professional sailor Michael Allen. They have two children, daughter Grace born 19 September 1994, and son Max born 20 December 1996. She was a producer for WBZ-TV in Boston, Massachusetts from around her graduation until 1990. Allen currently works for VSA arts (formerly Very Special Arts), a creative offshoot of the Paralympic Games, founded by her aunt Jean Kennedy Smith. Kennedy is a lung cancer survivor.

73 posted on 09/17/2011 10:13:43 AM PDT by Liz (The rule of law must prevail. We canÂ’t govern ourselves by our personal point of view.)
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To: DJ MacWoW

Calling him “professional” implies that someone hires and pays him to do it. An America’s Cup crew member is a “professional sailor”. Very strange.


74 posted on 09/17/2011 10:20:06 AM PDT by Locomotive Breath
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To: Locomotive Breath

Thanks for the clarification.


75 posted on 09/17/2011 10:38:47 AM PDT by DJ MacWoW (America! The wolves are here! What will you do?)
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To: DJ MacWoW

“Me too. I read that and thought “what?!””

Maybe it’s something they do in Mass. All my imagination could come up with is that he may have some sort of charter type business in Martha’s Vineyard where he takes tourists on sailing excursions, something like that.


76 posted on 09/17/2011 11:03:57 AM PDT by Heart of Georgia (Still believing...Sarah 2012!)
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To: raccoonradio

“daughter of Walter Mondale, Eleanor, also just passed away—same age, 51”

Sorry to hear. I’m working and can’t keep up very well, cancer?


77 posted on 09/17/2011 11:07:33 AM PDT by Heart of Georgia (Still believing...Sarah 2012!)
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To: trisham
"A woman who was 51 and not overweight? I wonder if she had a congenital defect of some kind. How sad."

Maybe the loss of part of her lung and the subsequent treatment for the lung cancer took a toll on her overall health.

78 posted on 09/17/2011 11:26:46 AM PDT by Mila
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To: Mila

Yes, that and someone else posted that chemo and radiation can damage the heart.


79 posted on 09/17/2011 12:14:59 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: wardaddy

Don’t forget Kathleen, the Kennedy sister who died also died tragically and prematurely.

Kathleen Cavendish, Marchioness of Hartington

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathleen_Cavendish,_Marchioness_of_Hartington


80 posted on 09/17/2011 12:39:46 PM PDT by Mila
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