Eunice Shriver, 88, fifth of nine children to Joseph P. and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, has died. She emerged from the shadow of her famous siblings, John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy and Sen. Edward M. Kennedy and founded the Special Olympics, which started as a summer day camp in her backyard in 1962. According to the Special Olympics, today, over three million people with mental disabilities participate in 228 programs in 170 nations.
Shriver's husband, R. Sargent Shriver, and her five children, including Maria Shriver, California's first lady, and their spouses and all of her 19 grandchildren were with her when she died, the Special Olympics said in a statement. Mrs. Shriver received a degree in sociology from Stanford University in Palo Alto, California and worked for the U.S. State Department in the Special War Problems Division from 1943 to 1945, helping former prisoners of war readjust to civilian life. She married Robert Sargent Shriver Jr., a World War II veteran who was building his career as a lawyer and lifelong public servant, in 1953.
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