Posted on 05/20/2012 4:22:56 PM PDT by DeaconBenjamin
Delivering a eulogy to his estranged wife Mary, Mr Kennedy, the son of the assassinated attorney-general Robert F Kennedy and nephew of President John F Kennedy, spoke of her troubled life and admitted that she resented him for asking her to give up her career to have children.
Mary Richardson Kennedy’s family went to court on Friday to try to stop her being interred in a Kennedy family plot in Centerville, Massachusetts.
But the burial went ahead following a funeral service at St Patrick’s Church in Bedford, New York, attended by stars including the actors Chevy Chase, Dan Aykroyd, Glenn Close, Susan Sarandon and Larry David, and the tennis champion John McEnroe.
Representatives from the Kennedy clan included Ethel Kennedy, Mr Kennedy’s mother and RFK’s widow, Caroline Kennedy, President Kennedy’s daughter, and Maria Shriver, another cousin, who is married but separated from Arnold Schwarzenegger, the actor turned California governor.
In his tearful eulogy, twice-married Mr Kennedy told mourners how his troubled wife had telephoned him the day before she was found hanging from a barn in the home they once shared in upstate New York.
He said: “The day before she died, she called me and said, 'You know me better than anyone in the world’. She said, 'I was such a good girl’. I said, 'I know you are and you still are’. She really fought so hard. She had these demons, and she didn’t deserve it. I know I did everything I could to help her.”
Mrs Kennedy’s friends have suggested that she was distraught at the separation from her husband, who filed for divorce in 2010 and is now in a relationship with Cheryl Hines, the star of the television show Curb Your Enthusiasm, but had not completed the process.
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The time of death was not released but family friend Michaelis said a housekeeper had seen Mary Kennedy alive Tuesday, and worried about her absence Wednesday morning.
Her husband denied reports that a suicide note was found.
The Kennedys’ four kids, Conor, Kyra, William and Aiden, range in age from 17 to 11. They were not living with their mom when she killed herself a few days after Mother’s Day.
Their father, who lived in a rented house near the family home and also spent time in California, had taken temporary custody in February.
They were described by family friends as being “shellshocked.”
“They’re quiet. They seem to be actually very stoic,” said one friend.
Friends of the couple said Mary Kennedy knew she was not coping well with the looming divorce and the separation from her kids, but they were shocked that she would go as far as suicide.
“She never gave the impression that things were as bad as they must have been for her to do what she did,” Michaelis said.
His sister, Kerry Kennedy, told the paper that while Mary was enrolled in Alcoholics Anonymous and had been sober for five months, her battle with booze was dwarfed by her depression.
“Her doctors who were well-meaning were trying mightily to find the correct mix of medications to help her. And they failed. Repeatedly,” she said.
“She was fighting, fighting, fighting with every ounce of her being to beat back those demons.”
An autopsy Thursday confirmed that Mary Kennedy died of asphyxiation due to hanging.
You wrote:
“I don’t know squat about the Kennedy dude but I know for a fact that my father paid off the catholic church to get an annulment from my mom. It was a $1000 “donation” straight to the Monsignor at St. Monica’s church in Santa Monica, CA.”
Monsignors do not give annulments. Tribunals do. Your story doesn’t work. The only money involved in annulments is the fee for the Tribunal’s work. Those fees don’t even cover the cost of the work, nor are they even required as the poor do not have to pay them.
I’m just glad that he has it in perspective that her death is really all about him.
Thanks DeaconBenjamin.
No flames at all TLC,
We uns know top to bottom the Kennedy clan was / is poison.
A sad chapter in the history of America.
Still something strange here, Women don’t hang themselves. It’s messy and its nasty, they take drugs
My wife and I both received annulments. The administrative fees were $600.00 for the each of us.
It’s called an Indulgence. More common in the church a thousand years ago but you can still pay for an annullment. One of my friends did that so she could remarry in the Catholic church. Divorce calls for excommunication.
Because they were still legally married to each other; absent any contrary document signed by her (say to be buried
in her family plot not the Kennedy’s)RFK Jr can decide
Because her husband still had the legal authority to make that call. Parents lose that ability when a child gets married, and then has children.
Wills trump it all....but I am sure that was not stipulated.
It’s the law. It’s been that way for going on 900 years or so.
You wrote:
“It’s called an Indulgence.”
No, it isn’t.
“More common in the church a thousand years ago but you can still pay for an annullment.”
False. There is no way to pay for an annulment. Also, there has never been a connection between an indulgences and annulments.
“One of my friends did that so she could remarry in the Catholic church.”
She didn’t pay a dime for the annulment. She paid for the Tribunal’s costs.
“Divorce calls for excommunication.”
False. You cannot be excommunicated for divorce.
You seem to have no idea what you’re talking about. I do know what I’m talking about.
I’m from Mass and I can not stand any of them. It repulses me to even see their faces. Does that help?
Will her family be able to visit her grave whenever they want? Or are the Kennedys buried in a private graveyard?
A family member paid for his annullment also. Without it, he wouldn’t have been able to remarry in the Catholic Church. 25 years of marriage and six children, and they gave it to him.
I thought eulogies were supposed to be positive, happy memories of the deceased, sounds like he trashed her and exonerated himself of any blame. Certainly not the time not place for that, but then I don’t think church is the place for eulogies.
Legally they are still married, he’s next of kin and makes the decisions.
Her suicide is no one’s responsibility but her own. There were a million other options for her to take. No matter how sorry the Kennedy fellow is, she made the choice. She could have left the entire bunch and easily found someone else that would have cherished her and cared for her unlike R. Kennedy did. She could have received help easily.
She resented him for asking her to give up her career to have children?!
She was pregnant when they married. He was still legally married to the first ex wife when he knocked up the second. The facts don't seem to support his contention that he had to convince her to have kids.
Is there any male member of the Kennedy clan who isn't a pig?
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