(1966 -1999)
Carolyn Bessette Kennedy (1966 -1999)
Obituary From: Greenwich, CT, USACarolyn Bessette Kennedy was born on January 7, 1966 in White Plains, NY then moved to Greenwich, CT, when her parents divorced when she was eight years old. A graduate of Boston University, she resigned her job at Calvin Klein, where she worked first as personal shopper to celebrity clients then as a publicist, shortly before her marriage.
The Bessette family enjoyed a relatively quiet, anonymous life before Carolyn Bessette married into America's most famous family. Friends of Carolyn Bessette Kennedy and Lauren Bessette gathered at a Mass in the community they grew up in Sunday, offering condolences and memories of women they say captivated them long before they became part of the Kennedy clan.
John F. Kennedy Jr., 38, his wife, Bessette Kennedy, 33, and her sister, Lauren Bessette, 35, died on Friday 16 July 1999 in Kennedy's plane after it left Fairfield, N.J., for Cape Cod, Mass., for a Kennedy cousin's wedding. Carolyn and her twin sisters, Lauren and Lisa, were raised by their mother, Ann Freeman, who worked as a teacher and administrator in the New York public schools, and their stepfather, Richard Freeman, an orthopedic surgeon.
Bessette Kennedy, 33, married Kennedy in a top-secret ceremony in September 1996. When she graduated from St. Mary's in 1983, she was voted "The Ultimate Beautiful Person,'' by her classmates. The Bessettes’ mother and stepfather have one surviving daughter, Lisa, who was Lauren’s twin.
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