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ROSE FITZGERALD KENNEDY

Name: Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy                                                     
Born: July 22, 1890 North End, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.                       
Died: January 22, 1995 Hyannis Port, Massachusetts, U.S.A.                         
                                                                                   
Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy (July 22, 1890 - January 22, 1995) was the wife of         
Joseph Kennedy and the mother of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy.               
                                                                                   
Born Rose Elizabeth Fitzgerald in the North End neighborhood of Boston,           
Massachusetts, she was the eldest child of John F. "Honey Fitz" Fitzgerald and     
his wife, Mary Josephine Hannon. "Honey Fitz" was a prominent figure in Boston     
politics and served one term as a member of United States Congress and two terms   
as the Mayor of Boston.                                                           
                                                                                   
As a young child, Rose lived in a Victorian mansard-style home in the Ashmont     
Hill section of Dorchester, Massachusetts and attended the local Girl's Latin     
School. The home later burned down, but a plaque at Welles Avenue and Harley       
Street proclaims "Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Square". The plaque was dedicated by     
her son, Senator Edward M. Kennedy, on Rose's 102nd birthday in 1992               
                                                                                   
Rose took her studies seriously, and studied at the convent school Kasteel         
Bloemendal in Vaals, Holland, and graduated from Dorchester High School in 1906.   
She also attended the New England Conservatory in Boston where she studied piano.
After being refused permission by her father to attend Wellesley College, Rose     
enrolled at the Manhattanville College of the Sacred Heart (as it was known at     
that time). In 1908, Rose and her father embarked on a tour of Europe which       
included visiting the newly built Panama Canal.