Eunice Kennedy Shriver is the sister of President John F. Kennedy. On August 7, 2009, the 88-year-old Shriver was hospitalized at a Cape Cod, Massachusetts hospital.http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/wire/sns-ap-eunice-kennedy-shriver,1,1053608.story She passed away on August 11.http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2009/08/11/eunice_kennedy_shriver_88_member_of_kennedy_clan_founder_of_special_olympics/
Eunice Kennedy Shriver founded the Special Olympics in 1968.http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9136962
Children
- April 28, 1954: Robert Sargent Shriver III, former part-owner of the Baltimore Orioles
- November 6, 1955: Maria Owings Shriver, TV anchorwoman and wife of California's Republican Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger
- August 29, 1959: Timothy Perry Shriver, Chairman of the Special Olympics
- February 17, 1964: Mark Kennedy Shriver, Democratic member of Maryland's House of Delegates (1995-2003).
- July 20, 1965: Anthony Paul Kennedy Shriver, activist for the developmentally disabled and chairman of Best Buddies International, a friendship program for people with intellectual disabilities
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Fast Facts
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Full name
Eunice Mary Kennedy Shriver
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Born
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Place of Birth
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Fifth child of Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. and Rose Kennedy
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Sister to John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, Edward Kennedy
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Graduated from Stanford University with a B.A. in Sociology
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Married Sargent Shriver on May 23, 1953
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Only living woman whose portrait appears on a US coin, the 1995 commemorative Special Olympics Silver Dollar
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January 28, 2008
present at American University when Senator Ted Kennedy announced his endorsement of Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign
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Congress renamed the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) to the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development in 2008
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Died
August 11, 2009
