- Spent the rest of her life at St. Coletta, an institution for the developmentally disabled in Jefferson, Wisconsin.
- Was one of nine children born to Joseph P. Kennedy and Rose Kennedy. Sister of President John F. Kennedy, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, and Sen. Ted Kennedy.
- In 1968 her sister Eunice Kennedy Shriver founded the Special Olympics, an athletic competition for those with intellectual disabilities, in tribute to Rosemary.
- She was the first of the nine Kennedy children to die of natural causes.
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