Ancestry of
Eunice Kennedy Shriver

Founder of the Special Olympics

Eunice Kennedy

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• • 1st Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1 
  • Father:
  • Joseph Patrick "Joe" Kennedy 
  • Mother:
  • Rose Elizabeth Fitzgerald   
  • Birth Date:
  • 10 Jul 1921 
  • Birth Location:
  • Brookline, Norfolk, Massachusetts 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 11 Aug 2009 
  • Death Location:
  • Hyannis, Barnstable, Massachusetts 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • St. Francis Xavier Cemetery, Centerville, Barnstable, Massachusetts 
  • Notes: 

  • Eunice (Kennedy) Shriver was the Founder of the Special Olympics, awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1984 (United States's highest civilian honor), awarded the Eagle Award by the United States Sports Academy (its highest international award), received a papal knighthood from Pope Benedict XVI, and was a founder of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development which the U.S. Congress later re-named after her.

• Marriages for Eunice Kennedy

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  • Spouse:
  • (Robert) Sargent Shriver Jr.
  • Marriage Date:
  • 23 May 1953
  • Marriage Location:
  • St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York, New York

• Sources for Eunice Kennedy

  • ¹ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 09/05/2011).
  • ² Goodwin, Doris Kearns, The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys, New York: Simon and Schuster (1987), charts preceding the table of contents.
  • ³ Wikipedia, "Eunice Kennedy Shriver", (accessed 09/05/2011).