Born:
- 13 September 1918
- Brookline, Massachusetts
Died:
- 7 January 2005 (Aged 86)
- Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin
- Natural causes
Parents:
- Joseph P. Kennedy Sr.
- Rose F. Kennedy
Education:
- Sacred Heart Convent
Life, work, and impact:
- She greatly enjoyed her time in England during her father’s time as the Ambassador, receiving positive press as a beautiful debutante of a famous family and enrolling in a Montessori program that she found more fulfilling than other schools. Upon return to America, her life returned to a similar instability for her as before, switching school programs often and given less freedom than her siblings
- Rosemary’s disability, complicated by an unsuccessful surgery, institutionalized her for life with limited capacity for speech and walking, but inspired her family to efforts for the disabled which helped millions.
- Throughout her life, Rosemary regularly visited the family in Hyannis Port, including a visit to the John F. Kennedy Hyannis Museum