Overview

• The Massachusetts Democratic Party confirmed she died peacefully in her sleep at her Boston home on Wednesday.
• Her sons, Ted Kennedy Jr. and former Rep. Patrick J. Kennedy, praised her grace, honesty and example for people facing mental health challenges.
• She taught music, championed arts education, worked with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Boston Council for the Arts and Humanities, and authored The Joy of Classical Music in 1992.
• In the 1970s she publicly acknowledged struggles with alcoholism and depression and later embraced recovery and advocacy.
• Funeral details are pending and will be posted by Carr Funeral Home; survivors include her two sons, nine grandchildren, one great-grandchild and a sister, and she was predeceased by her daughter, Kara.