ROSE FITZGERALD BORN IN BOSTON
Rose later recalled..."I fell in love when I was seventeen and I never fell out."
Rose died at the Kennedy Compound in Hyannis Port on January 22, 1995. The funeral was held at St. Stephen's Church on January 24 in Boston's North End where Rose had been born. Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, who left behind 30 grandchildren and 41 great grandchildren, was buried in Brookline's Holyhood Cemetery next to her husband Joe.
"Rose Kennedy and Her Family: The Best and Worst of Their Lives and Times," by Barbara Gibson and Ted Schwarz, Carol Publishing Group, New York, 1995.
"Rose Kennedy, Political Matriarch Dies at 104," by Robert D. McFadden, January 23, 1995, www.nytimes.com/
Boston, Massachusetts (JFK+50) The mother of the future 35th POTUS, Rose Elizabeth Fitzgerald, was born on July 22, 1890 at 4 Garden Court Street here in Boston's North End.
Rose's parents were John F. and Mary Josephine Fitzgerald. She studied piano at the New England Conservatory and attended the Academy of the Sacred Heart in Manhattanville, NY. Rose met Joe Kennedy in Old Orchard, Maine in 1906 and married Joseph P. Kennedy on October 7, 1914.
Rose later recalled..."I fell in love when I was seventeen and I never fell out."
John F. "Honey Fitz" Fitzgerald, then the Mayor of Boston, did not share his daughter's love for Joe and the wedding ceremony was held in private attended only by family and the closest friends. The couple began their marriage living in Brookline and would eventually have 9 children, one of them becoming President and two others becoming United States Senators.
Rose died at the Kennedy Compound in Hyannis Port on January 22, 1995. The funeral was held at St. Stephen's Church on January 24 in Boston's North End where Rose had been born. Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, who left behind 30 grandchildren and 41 great grandchildren, was buried in Brookline's Holyhood Cemetery next to her husband Joe.
SOURCES
"Rose Kennedy and Her Family: The Best and Worst of Their Lives and Times," by Barbara Gibson and Ted Schwarz, Carol Publishing Group, New York, 1995.
"Rose Kennedy, Political Matriarch Dies at 104," by Robert D. McFadden, January 23, 1995, www.nytimes.com/
Rose Kennedy & the President
Statler Hilton Hotel
Washington, D.C.
December 6, 1962
Photo by Abbie Rowe
JFK Library Image
