REST IN PEACE, BABY PATRICK
Brookline, MA (JFK+50) On August 10, 1963, the infant son of President and Mrs. John F. Kennedy, Patrick Bouvier Kennedy, was laid to rest at Holyhood Cemetery* here in Brookline.
Patrick, who was born five and a half weeks premature, died in the early morning hours of August 9, only 39 hours after birth. The Kennedy baby died as a result of complications of hyaline membrane disease.
Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy, recovering from the delivery at Otis Air Force Base Hospital, was unable to attend the service.
The funeral mass, celebrated by Richard Cardinal Cushing, archbishop of Boston, at his residence, was attended only by members of the immediate Kennedy family.
The gravesite at Holyhood Cemetery was only a short distance from Beals Street where JFK was born. According to David Powers, the President put a gold St. Christopher's Medal inside the casket.
*Holyhood Cemetery is located on Heath Street in Brookline, MA. Laid out in 1857, it covers 35 acres. HC is the resting place of JFK's father & mother, Joseph & Rose. It also is the burial site of Irish poet/journalist John Boyle O'Reilly.
SOURCE
"Johnny We Hardly Knew Ye: Memories of John Fitzgerald Kennedy," by Kenneth P. O'Donnell and David F. Powers, Little Brown and Company, Boston, 1970, 1972.
Brookline, MA (JFK+50) On August 10, 1963, the infant son of President and Mrs. John F. Kennedy, Patrick Bouvier Kennedy, was laid to rest at Holyhood Cemetery* here in Brookline.
Patrick, who was born five and a half weeks premature, died in the early morning hours of August 9, only 39 hours after birth. The Kennedy baby died as a result of complications of hyaline membrane disease.
Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy, recovering from the delivery at Otis Air Force Base Hospital, was unable to attend the service.
The funeral mass, celebrated by Richard Cardinal Cushing, archbishop of Boston, at his residence, was attended only by members of the immediate Kennedy family.
The gravesite at Holyhood Cemetery was only a short distance from Beals Street where JFK was born. According to David Powers, the President put a gold St. Christopher's Medal inside the casket.
*Holyhood Cemetery is located on Heath Street in Brookline, MA. Laid out in 1857, it covers 35 acres. HC is the resting place of JFK's father & mother, Joseph & Rose. It also is the burial site of Irish poet/journalist John Boyle O'Reilly.
SOURCE
"Johnny We Hardly Knew Ye: Memories of John Fitzgerald Kennedy," by Kenneth P. O'Donnell and David F. Powers, Little Brown and Company, Boston, 1970, 1972.
Holyhood Cemetery Chapel
Brookline, Massachusetts
Photo by Magicpiano (2011)
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