Kyle Kennedy, granddaughter of Robert F. Kennedy, dies.

Kyle Francis Kennedy, a granddaughter of Robert F. Kennedy and Ethel Kennedy, died last month at her home in Westwood, according to an online obituary. She was 42. The notice, posted to the Burke Funeral Home website, said Kyle Kennedy died “peacefully” on Sept. 21. No cause of death was provided. She had suffered a spinal cord injury in 2020 that brought “long term paralysis, disability, and other medical challenges,” the obituary said. She was born in Washington, D. C. in 1984 and spent most of her life in Massachusetts, where she “built a career devoted to early childhood education,” the obituary said. “Blessed with a formidable intellect, dry wit, and beauty, she will be remembered for her devotion to her children Conor, Josephine, and Declan, and her support for educational reform for disadvantaged children and for people living with disabilities,” the obituary said. She attended Milton Academy and later graduated with a degree in history from Georgetown University before earning master’s degrees from both Pace University and Harvard’s Graduate School of Education, the obituary said.