Kennedy clan gather for Shriver's wake

Eunice Kennedy Shriver was celebrated by family members as a passionate humanitarian and a pious woman devoid of vanity, hours after thousands of mourners flocked to a church to pay their respects to the founder of the Special Olympics.

Kennedy clan gather for Shriver's wake

Eunice Kennedy Shriver was celebrated by family members as a passionate humanitarian and a pious woman devoid of vanity, hours after thousands of mourners flocked to a church to pay their respects to the founder of the Special Olympics.

“She was pious, I think a very, very pious woman,” Shriver’s nephew Robert F. Kennedy Jr said during a mass service that capped a six-hour public wake for Mrs Shriver.

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