Eunice Kennedy was the fifth of nine children of Joseph Kennedy Sr. and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy.
When she graduated from Stanford University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Sociology in 1943, she worked for the Special War Problems Division of the State Department.
She then moved to the Justice Department as executive secretary for a project dealing with juvenile delinquency.
She served as a social worker at the Federal Industrial Institution for Women for one year before moving to Chicago in 1951 to work with House of the Good Shepherd women's shelter and Chicago Juvenile Court.
On May 23, 1953, she married Sargent Shriver.
They had five children and have nineteen grandchildren.
Her surviving siblings are Jean Kennedy Smith who is 81, and U.S. Senator Edward M. Kennedy 77.
Eunice Kennedy Shriver was the founder of the Special Olympics.
She was 88.
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