Funerals

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Arabella Kennedy

  • Death: August 23, 1956 (stillborn)
  • Funeral: Newport, RI
  • Services: Newport, RI
  • Internment: St. Columba's Cemetery, Newport, RI/Arlington National Cemetery

John Vernou "Black Jack" Bouvier III 

  • Death: August 3, 1957 (liver cancer)
  • Funeral: Date needed
  • Services: St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York City
  • Internment: Most Holy Trinity Catholic Cemetery, East Hampton, NY

Patrick Bouvier Kennedy

  • Death: August 9, 1963 (Hyaline Membrane Disease)
  • Funeral: August 10, 1963
  • Services: Private chapel of Cardinal Richard Cushing, Boston, MA
  • Internment: Holyhood Cemetery/Arlington National Cemetery

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

  • Death: November 22, 1963 (gunshot wounds)
  • Funeral: November 25, 1963
  • Services: St. Matthew's Cathedral, Washington, DC
  • Internment: Arlington National Cemetery
  • Jackie's funeral attire: Givenchy

Robert Francis Kennedy

  • Death: June 6, 1968 (gunshot wounds)
  • Funeral: June 8, 1968
  • Services: St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York City
  • Internment: Arlington National Cemetery

Aristotle Onassis

  • Death: March 15, 1975 (respiratory failure/Myasthenia Gravis)
  • Funeral: March 1975
  • Funeral and Internment: Onassis Chapel, Skorpios Island, Greece
  • Jackie's funeral attire: Valentino

Janet Lee Bouvier Auchincloss

  • Death: July 22, 1989 (Alzheimer's)
  • Funeral: July 28, 1989
  • Services:Trinity Church, Newport, RI
  • Internment: Common Burying Ground and Island Cemetery, Newport, RI

Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis

  • Death: May 19, 1994 (Non-Hodgkin lymphoma)
  • Funeral: May 23, 1994
  • Services: St. Ignatius Loyola, New York City
  • Internment: Arlington National Cemetery
  • Jackie's funeral shroud: Unknown

John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette Kennedy

  • Deaths: July 16, 1999 (plane crash)
  • Funeral: July 22, 1999, USS Briscoe off the coast of Martha's Vineyard, MA
  • Services: July 23, 1999, the Church of St. Thomas More, New York City
  • Internment: Burial at sea

Edward Moore Kennedy

  • Death: August 25, 2009 (brain tumor)
  • Funeral: August 29, 2009
  • Services: Basilica and Shrine of Our Lady of Perpetual Help, Boston, MA
  • Internment: Arlington National Cemetery

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