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Senator Ted Kennedy Funeral & Burial Information Released

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August 26th, 2009 by Castina

Tagged as: Popular Culture

Details for the burial and public and private memorial services honoring the life of Massachusetts Senator Ted Kennedy have been released.

Senator Kennedy, the last surviving brother of the Kennedy Family Dynasty, died at his home on Cape Cod Tuesday night after a courageous yearlong battle against brain cancer. He was 77.
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A motorcade will carry Kennedy, who passed away Tuesday, from Hyannis Port, Mass., to Boston on Thursday, where he will lie in state at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library until Friday.

The public is invited to memoralize one of our nation’s longest-serving senators between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. on Friday.

Between 7 and 9 p.m. on Friday, a private memorial service will be held at the library. The funeral Mass will be at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Basilica — known as the Mission Church — in the Mission Hill neighborhood of Boston on Saturday.

According to The Associated Press, Senator Kennedy will be buried near his slain brothers, President John F. and Senator Robert Kennedy at Arlington National Cemetery in Northern Virginia at 5 PM on Aug. 29.

Kennedy’s memoir, True Compass, is complete and set to be published in the fall.


       



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