‘God bless Ted, the last was first,’ reads condolence sign in Hyannis Port
He will be laid to rest at Arlington this Friday next to his brothers Former president John F Keendy ,and Robert F Kennedy.
HYANNIS PORT, Mass. – Mourners gathered Thursday at both ends of a 70-mile route that is carrying the body of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy from the Cape Cod home where he spent his final days to the presidential library bearing the name of one of his slain brothers.
The late senator’s loved ones began arriving shortly before noon for a private Mass at the family compound in Hyannis Port. Among those heading in were his nieces Caroline, daughter of former President John F. Kennedy, and Maria Shriver, daughter of his late sister Eunice; and his son Patrick Kennedy, a Rhode Island congressman.
After the Mass, a motorcade left for Boston. On the way to the library, which Kennedy helped develop, the hearse will pass sites that were significant to the senator.
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