Rosemary Forbes Kerry

Rosemary Forbes Kerry
Born	Rosemary Isabel Forbes (1913-10-27)October 27, 1913 Paris, France
Died	November 14, 2002(2002-11-14) (aged 89) Manchester-by-the-Sea, Massachusetts
Religion	Episcopalian
Spouse(s)	Richard John Kerry (m. 1941-2000; his death)
Children	Margaret Kerry John Forbes Kerry Diana Kerry Cameron Forbes Kerry
Parent(s)	James Grant Forbes Margaret Tyndal Winthrop
Relatives	Brice Lalonde (nephew) Alexandra Forbes Kerry (granddaughter) Vanessa Bradford Kerry (granddaughter)

Rosemary Isabel Forbes (October 27, 1913 – November 14, 2002) was a nurse, social activist, and the mother of John Forbes Kerry, United States Secretary of State and the 2004 candidate for President of the United States.^[1][2]

She was born in Paris, France, to American parents. She was one of eleven children of James Grant Forbes II of the Protestant Forbes family and Margaret Tyndal Winthrop of the Dudley–Winthrop family. She studied to be a nurse, and served in the Red Cross in Paris during World War II. She also was a Girl Scout leader at the troop and council level in Groton, Massachusetts, for 50 years. Margaret was a granddaughter of Robert Charles Winthrop.

She married Richard John Kerry, in Montgomery, Alabama on February 8, 1941, and was the mother of John Forbes Kerry, the current United States Secretary of State and 2004 candidate for President of the United States. They met when Kerry took a sculpture class at the resort of Saint-Briac, where the Forbes family built the family estate.

During her lifetime, she was the beneficiary of Forbes family trusts, of which her son John Kerry is now the partial beneficiary; as Rosemary was one of 11 children, there is not much that remained.

Rosemary was also the mother of another son, Cameron, who is General Counsel of the U.S. Department of Commerce, and was formerly a Boston lawyer, an adjunct law professor at Suffolk Law School and a convert to Judaism; and two daughters, Diana and Margaret (Peggy).

Ancestry^[3][4]

References

External links

• AP report about John Kerry's inheritance at the Wayback Machine (archived June 5, 2003)
• The Ancestors of Senator John Forbes Kerry (b. 1943)

John Kerry Career Military career 2004 Democratic National Convention 2004 campaign VP selection process Kerry–Feingold Amendment Sponsored legislation Elections Senate election, 1984 Senate election, 1990 Senate election, 1996 Senate election, 2002 United States presidential election, 2004 Senate election, 2008 Family Forbes family Dudley–Winthrop family Teresa Heinz Julia Thorne Alexandra Kerry Vanessa Kerry Richard J. Kerry Rosemary Forbes Kerry Cameron Kerry