Editing Eunice Kennedy Shriver (section)

==Personal life==
[[File:Eunice_Kennedy_Shriver_and_Sargent_Shriver.jpg|thumb|upright|Shriver and husband, Sargent, in 1999]]
On May 23, 1953, aged 31, Shriver married [[Sargent Shriver]] in a [[Roman Catholic]] ceremony at [[St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York|Saint Patrick's Cathedral]] in New York City.<ref name="JFKLibrary">{{cite web |url-status=dead |url=http://www.jfklibrary.org/Historical+Resources/Archives/Archives+and+Manuscripts/Shriver.Sargent/fa_shriver_long.htm |title=R(obert) Sargent Shriver: Papers (#214) |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071020232431/http://www.jfklibrary.org/Historical+Resources/Archives/Archives+and+Manuscripts/Shriver.Sargent/fa_shriver_long.htm |archive-date=October 20, 2007 |publisher=[[John F. Kennedy Library|John F. Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum]]}}</ref> Her husband served as the [[United States Ambassador to France|U.S. ambassador to France]] from 1968 to 1970 and was the 1972 Democratic U.S. vice presidential candidate (with [[George McGovern]] as the candidate for [[President of the United States|U.S. President]]).<ref name="JFKLibrary"/><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/19/us/politics/19shriver.html|title=R. Sargent Shriver, Kennedy In-Law and Peace Corps Founding Director, Dies at 95|first=Robert D.|last=McFadden|date=January 18, 2011|newspaper=The New York Times |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231128042937/https://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/19/us/politics/19shriver.html |archive-date= Nov 28, 2023 }}</ref> They had five children: [[Bobby Shriver|Robert Sargent Shriver III]], [[Maria Shriver|Maria Owings Shriver (Schwarzenegger)]], [[Timothy Shriver|Timothy Perry Shriver]], [[Mark Kennedy Shriver]], and [[Anthony Shriver|Anthony Paul Kennedy Shriver]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.politico.com/news/stories/0809/26007.html|title=Eunice Kennedy Shriver, 1921–2009|first=Mike|last=Allen|website=POLITICO |date=August 11, 2009 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221130222042/https://www.politico.com/story/2009/08/eunice-kennedy-shriver-1921-2009-026007 |archive-date= Nov 30, 2022 }}</ref> Shriver had nineteen grandchildren at the time of her death.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/08/11/eunice.kennedy.shriver/index.html|title=Eunice Kennedy Shriver dies at 88 |website=CNN |first1= Emanuella |last1=Grinberg |date=August 11, 2009 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221129103146/https://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/08/11/eunice.kennedy.shriver/index.html |archive-date= Nov 29, 2022 }}</ref>

She had a close relationship with her sister [[Rosemary Kennedy]], who was intellectually disabled and who became incapacitated due to a lobotomy.<ref name="auto"/> Shriver suffered a stroke and broken hip in 2005.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cnn.com/2009/US/08/14/shriver.funeral/index.html|title=Special Olympics torch lights Eunice Kennedy Shriver's funeral |website=CNN |date=August 14, 2009 |url-status=live |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20230816191334/https://www.cnn.com/2009/US/08/14/shriver.funeral/index.html |archive-date= Aug 16, 2023 }}</ref> On November 18, 2007, aged 86, she was admitted to [[Massachusetts General Hospital]] in Boston, where she spent several weeks.<ref name=2007hospital>{{cite news|url= https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/25/AR2007112500627_pf.html |title=Eunice Kennedy Shriver Hospitalized|date= November 25, 2007|agency=Associated Press|newspaper=[[The Washington Post|washingtonpost.com]] |access-date=August 12, 2009}}</ref><ref>Beggy, Carol and Mark Shanahan, [https://www.boston.com/ae/celebrity/articles/2008/01/14/shes_loyal_to_fathers_ideal/ "She's loyal to father's 'Ideal'"], ''[[The Boston Globe]]'', January 14, 2008. Retrieved August 11, 2009.</ref>

===Death===
On August 7, 2009, Shriver was admitted to [[Cape Cod Hospital]] in [[Hyannis, Massachusetts]] with an undisclosed ailment.<ref>McGreevy, Patrick.  [http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2009/08/schwarzenegger-maria-shriver-at-eunice-shrivers-bedside.html "Schwarzenegger, Maria Shriver at Eunice Shriver's bedside"], [[Los Angeles Times]]. August 7, 2009. Retrieved August 7, 2009.</ref> On August 10, her relatives were called to the hospital.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/08/10/eunice.kennedy.shriver/index.html|title=Eunice Kennedy Shriver's relatives called to hospital|author=<!--Not stated--> |work=CNN|date=August 11, 2009|access-date=August 11, 2009}}</ref> She died at the hospital the next day at the age of 88, two weeks before her brother, Senator Ted Kennedy, died on August 25, 2009, at the age of 77.<ref name="cnndeath" /><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0809/26007.html|title=Eunice Kennedy Shriver dies |last=Allen|first=Mike |work=Politico |date= August 11, 2009|access-date=August 11, 2009}}</ref>

Shriver's family issued a statement upon her death, reading in part:

{{blockquote|Inspired by her love of God, her devotion to her family, and her relentless belief in the dignity and worth of every human life, she worked without ceasing—searching, pushing, demanding, hoping for change. She was a living prayer, a living advocate, a living center of power. She set out to change the world and to change us, and she did that and more. She founded the movement that became Special Olympics, the largest movement for acceptance and inclusion for people with intellectual disabilities in the history of the world. Her work transformed the lives of hundreds of millions of people across the globe, and they in turn are her living legacy.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.eunicekennedyshriver.org/articles/article/171|title=Statement from The Shriver Family|website=Eunice Kennedy Shriver|date=2009-08-11|access-date=2009-08-11|archive-date=August 14, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090814113450/http://www.eunicekennedyshriver.org/articles/article/171|url-status=dead}}</ref>}}

President [[Barack Obama]] remarked after Shriver's death that she was "an extraordinary woman who, as much as anyone, taught our nation—and our world—that no physical or mental barrier can restrain the power of the human spirit."<ref>{{cite news |url=http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/afterword/2010/08/one-year-ago-eunice-kennedy-shriver.html|title=One year ago: Eunice Kennedy Shriver|date=August 11, 2010 |first=Michael|last=Farr|newspaper=Los Angeles Times}}</ref>

===Funeral and burial===
On August 14, 2009, an invitation-only [[Requiem Mass]] was celebrated for Shriver at St. Francis Xavier Roman Catholic Church in Hyannis.  Following the Requiem Mass, she was buried at the St. Francis Xavier parish cemetery in nearby [[Centerville, Massachusetts]].<ref name=turnto10><!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.-->  [http://www2.turnto10.com/jar/news/local/article/biden_among_invitees_to_eunice_kennedy_shriver_funeral_mass/21671/ "Special Olympians, Family Celebrate Eunice Kennedy Shriver"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090817212151/http://www2.turnto10.com/jar/news/local/article/biden_among_invitees_to_eunice_kennedy_shriver_funeral_mass/21671/ |date=August 17, 2009 }}. ''[[Associated Press|The Associated Press]]'' (at [[WJAR]] television's website turnto10.com). August 14, 2009. Retrieved August 16, 2000.</ref> Pope [[Benedict XVI]] sent a letter of condolence to her family.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.zenit.org/article-26630?l=english|title=Pope's Letter to Kennedy-Shriver Family|access-date=August 20, 2009|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110608004113/http://www.zenit.org/article-26630?l=english |archive-date=June 8, 2011}}</ref> Because her brother Ted had [[terminal illness|terminal]] [[brain cancer]], he was unable to attend the funeral, and their sister [[Jean Kennedy Smith]] stayed with him. Ted died two weeks later, leaving Jean as the sole surviving child of Joseph and Rose Kennedy until her death on June 17, 2020, at the age of 92.<ref name="abcjean">{{cite web|url=https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/TedKennedy/story?id=8421544|title=The Last Kennedy: A Closer Look at Jean Kennedy Smith|last=McMullen|first=Troy|website=ABC News|date=August 26, 2009|access-date=August 26, 2009|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190804171235/https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/TedKennedy/jean-kennedy-smith-kennedy/story?id=8421544|archive-date=August 4, 2019}}</ref>