Saoirse Kennedy Hill ... “She cared deeply about friends and family, especially her mother Courtney, her father Paul, her stepmother Stephanie, and her grandmother Ethel.” ...

"My mom, Ethel Skakel Kennedy, passed peacefully into Heaven this morning," he began his tribute. "She was 96. She died in Boston surrounded by many of her nine surviving children and her friends.

(AP) — Ethel Kennedy ... Saoirse Kennedy Hill died of an apparent drug overdose. “One wonders how much this family must be expected to absorb,” family friend Philip Johnson, founder of ...

At least he never bit Plimpton on the ankle, as Ethel once did. "The whole idea was to relax in a violent fashion," summed up Gerald Tremblay, a law school friend of Kennedy. Besides ...