Rest in Peace: Kara Kennedy, eldest daughter of Senator Ted Kennedy

From the Associated Press:  

Kara Kennedy, the oldest child of the late Sen. Edward (Ted) Kennedy, died at a Washington-area health club, her brother said Saturday. She was 51. Patrick Kennedy, a former congressman from Rhode Island, said his sister died Friday. “She’s with dad,” Patrick Kennedy said. Their father died in 2009 at age 77 after battling a brain tumor. Kara Kennedy had herself battled lung cancer: In 2003, doctors removed a malignant tumor. Patrick Kennedy said that his sister loved to exercise, but that he thinks her cancer treatment “took quite a toll on her and weakened her physically.”

Our prayers go out to her entire family. 

Vicki Kennedy and family attend groundbreaking ceremony for the Edward M. Kennedy Institute

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Vicki Kennedy, widow of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, and family are showing at the groundbreaking ceremonies for the new Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate in Boston on Friday. The site is located next to the John F. Kennedy Library and Museum.

Other members of the Kennedy family were also there including Ted Kennedy Jr. and his wife Kiki, Kara Kennedy Allen and Kara's children Max Allen and Grace Allen, former U.S. Congressman Patrick Kennedy, former ambassador Jean Kennedy Smith, Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg and her husband Edwin Schlossberg. Also shown above helping Mrs. Kennedy shove dirt are former U.S. Senator Paul Kirk, Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick, and Mayor of Boston Thomas Menino.