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The Palladium-Item and Sun-Telegram, Richmond, Sunday, June 9, 1968 5 (ennedys Family Remains II toic Through Tragedy 14 1 vm mit iJi Mrs. Ethel Kennedy is escorted by thedral for the funeral services of Sen. her brother-in-law, Sen. Edward Ken- Robert F. Kennedy Saturday morning, nedy, to their pew in St.

Patrick's Ca- Robert F. Kennedy 14-year-old services for his father in St. Patrick's son of the assassinated Senator from Cathedral Saturday. (AP Wirephotos) New York, serves as altar boy during With grief etched on her face, Mrs. Ethel Kennedy and her son, Joseph, 15, offer prayers for the senator in pew near his casket in St.

Patrick's Cathedral. Senator Widow Holds Back Tears i yi 11 NEW YORK (UPI) Ethel Kennedy did not cry. She sat quiet and composed in the great neo-Gothic cathedral where six Cardinals, 18 Archbishops and more than 200 priests conducted a solemn requiem mass for her slain husband. She wore widow's black and a thin black veil covered her face and her short blonde hair. She watched intently as the ritual of her church unfolded around the polished African mahogany coffin where the body of Sen.

Robert F. Kennedy lay. But now and then a noise behind her, a cough, the creak of a wooden pew, would catch her ear and, she would turn her head, sigh, turn back. "Don't cry now. We'll all passed the bier of her husband, Ethel Kennedy paid her own last visit.

Arriving at St. Patrick's cathedral before dawn, she sat in a chair near the end of the coffin and, placing her head in her hands, sat motionless for several minutes. She stayed in the towering church for almost 40 minutes but it was not the private time she had hoped it would be. A television camera focused on her face and caught the lines of pain and hurt it bore. Ethel Kennedy is no stranger to tragedy.

Not only was there the assassination of her brother-in-law, President John Kennedy, but also the deaths of her millionaire parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Skakel, in one private plane crash in 1955 and of lr jJ imlk Kennedy Family Leaves Cathedral Mrs. Ethel Kennedy, escorted by son, Robert and members of her center is Mrs. Rose Kennedy, mother of the slain senator.

Behind her is her daughter, Mrs. Sargent Shriver, and Sen. Edward Kennedy eulogizes morning. President and Mrs. John- his slain brother during funeral ser- son, at the lower right, are among vices for Sen.

Robert F. Kennedy in scores of notables who heard the trib- St. Patrick's Cathedral Saturday ute. (AP Wirephoto) "7)s Is The Way He Lived," Brother Says In Eulogy family leave St. Patrick's Cathedral Sargent Shriver.

Prelate with clasped have a good cry later," she told a mourning friend the night before. Her words were printed hands at right is Archbishop Terence Cooke of New York. (AP Wirephoto) following funeral services for her husband Saturday. Wearing veil at left in the Washington Post. her brother, George in another in 1966.

But until last Wednesday, when Robert Kennedy was felled by another assassin's bullet, she was, according to her friends, a Instead of crying, she tried to NEW YORK (AP) Sen. Edward Moore Kennedy asked Saturday that his murdered broth nappy person, fiercely loyal to her husband, devoted to children, energetic and athletic. Now that is changed, and she faces the birth of her 11th child this fall alone. TT I 1 I II I Or "I want to express what we feel to those who mourn with us today in this cathedral and around the world," he said. "We loved him as a brother and fath i er be remembered "simply as a good and decent man, who saw wrong and tried to right it, saw emotion tinged his voice.

"My brother need not be idealized, or enlarged in death beyond what he was in life, to be remembered simply as a good and decent man, who saw wrong and tried to right it, saw suffering and tried to heal it, saw war and tried to stop it." Kennedy devoted the bulk of suffering and tried to heal it, saw war and tried to stop it. iff' I er and son." The barely 10-minute tribute was framed in the same poetic cadences that characterized the campaign speeches of Robert Kennedy and their assassinated The last of four sons of the tragedy-plagued Kennedy family comfort the friends who gathered Friday night at her six-room apartment overlooking the United Nations and the East River. Although there were three maids to help, it often was Ethel Kennedy who left the cheerful yellow living room with its green carpeting and white couches to find coffee and cake or drinks for her visitors. Around her in the cathedral Saturday were her children. Kathleen, 16, Joseph III, 15, David, 12, and Mary 11, sat with her in the right hand front pew.

Robert 14, served as an altar boy. The other five, even 14-month-old Douglas Har-riman, came for part of the service with a nurse. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, the last of the four Kennedy brothers, sat with her and so did Mrs.

John F. Kennedy, delivered an emotional tribute Pope Paul Offers Mass For Kennedy VATICAN CITY (UPI)-Pope Paul VI prayed Friday for "peace for the soul" of the late Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, imploring from God "comfort for those he leaves behind and mer older brother, President John F. during the funeral services for Sen.

Robert F. Kennedy, concluding in a voice husky with his eulogy to quotes from his dead brother's speeches and writings. One was a reminiscence on what Joseph P. Kennedy 79, an invalid, had meant to him and the social conscience Kennedy. Gave To Others Edward said Robert gave his feeling.

"Those of us who loved him cy for this poor world shaken which the father had engen dered into his children. and who take him to his rest today pray that what he was to us and what he wished for others brothers and sisters "strength in time of trouble, wisdom in time of uncertainty, and sharing in time of happiness. He was al by violence." The pontiff offered mass for Emotion crept into Edward the murdered senator and will some day come to pass fori Kennedy's voice as he concluded of Robert Kennedy: named Angelo Cardinal DelP-Acqua to represent him at Kennedy's burial at Arlington Na "As he said many times, in ways by our side. "Love is not an easy feeling to put into words. Nor is loyalty or trust, or joy.

But he was all of many parts of this nation, to those he touched and who tional Cemetery Saturday. all the world," he said. Kennedy, 36, stood facing 2,100 invited mourners in St. Patrick's Cathedral as if accepting publicly the family leadership that was thrust upon him by an assassin's bullet a continent away a few days before. widowed so similarly 4 12 years earlier, and her two children, Caroline, 11, and John 7.

Lsought to touch him: 'Some men Sources said only the Pope's Nuns' Farewell A group of nuns ert F. Kennedy passes through North from various religious orders in the Philadelphia Station Saturday. On rear Philadelphia Roman Catholic Arch- platform of last car, Sen. Edward M. diocese wave as the funeral train bear- Kennedy waves to crowd.

(AP Wire- ing the body of assassinated Sen. Rob- photo) see things as they are and say two private secretaries were these. He loved life completely and lived it intensely." "This is the way he lived," Edward said as the first sign of why. I dream things that never Five hours earlier, when the present at the service in his were and say why last of the 151,000 mourners had private chapel. i Each Alone, With His Or Her Thoughts A i mil iA wK-1'' President Johnson sits near the flag-draped bier Sen.

Robert F. Kennedy during funeral services in St. Patrick's Cathedral Saturday. Sen. Eugene J.

McCarthy, who was vying with Kennedy for the Democratic presidential nomina. tion, bows his head during services in St. Patrick'i Cathedral. (AP Wirephotos) Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey extends his condolences to Sen.

Edward Kennedy as he leaves St. Patrick's Cathedral following the funeral services for Sen. Robert F. Kennedy. Mrs.

Rose Kennedy, who has lost three of her four sons, meditates during funeral services for her son, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, in St. Patrick's Cathedral Saturday morning..