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I was browsing at the slide show presented by Yahoo News on most emailed photos. Then I noticed that another slide show was featured for most viewed photos. There I noticed a lot of pictures of Eunice Kennedy Shriver, the sister of the slain former US President John F. Kennedy. She is also the mother-in-law of California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.

So, I immediately opted to search what was the buzz about her. Then I found out that Eunice Kennedy Shriver died at the age of 88, yesterday morning (August 11, 2009) at Cape Cod Hospital in Hyannis, Massachusetts. She helped to found the Special Olympics back in the 1960s.

Below are some photos of the great Eunice Kennedy Shriver, the champion for the rights of the mentally disabled.

Eunice Kennedy Shriver Biography according to Wikipedia:

Born Eunice Mary Kennedy in Brookline, Massachusetts, she was the fifth of nine children of Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. and Rose Kennedy (née Fitzgerald).

She was educated at the Convent of the Sacred Heart, Roehampton, London, England, and Manhattanville College in Purchase, New York, and attended Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, graduating in 1943 with a Bachelor of Science degree in sociology[2], after which she went to work for the United States Department of State in the Special War Problems division.

In 1950, she became a social worker at the then-named Federal Industrial Institution for Women in Alderson, West Virginia, and the following year she moved to Chicago, Illinois, to work with the House of the Good Shepherd and the Chicago Juvenile Court.

On May 23, 1953, she married Robert Sargent Shriver, Jr. in a Roman Catholic ceremony at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York City, New York.[3]

Her husband served as the U.S. Ambassador to France from 1968 to 1970 and was the Democratic U.S. Vice Presidential candidate in 1972 (with George McGovern as the candidate for U.S. President).[3]

They had five children: Robert Sargent Shriver III (born April 28, 1954), Maria Owings Shriver (November 6, 1955), Timothy Perry Shriver (August 29, 1959), Mark Kennedy Shriver (February 17, 1964), and Anthony Paul Kennedy Shriver (July 20, 1965).

With her husband she had nineteen grandchildren, the second-most of any of the children of Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. and Rose Kennedy. (Her late brother U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy had eleven children who have produced thirty-two grandchildren.)

Upon the death of her sister, Rosemary Kennedy, on January 7, 2005, Shriver became the eldest of the four then-surviving children of Joseph and Rose Kennedy. (Her sister, Patricia Kennedy Lawford, later died on September 17, 2006, leaving just her brother, U.S. Senator Edward M. Kennedy, and her sister, former U.S. Ambassador to Ireland Jean Kennedy Smith, as her surviving siblings.)

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