Rosemary Forbes Kerry

Rosemary Forbes Kerry
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Born	Rosemary Isabel Forbes (1913-10-27)October 27, 1913 Paris, France
Died	Manchester-by-the-Sea, Massachusetts
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.

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

Family of Rosemary Forbes Kerry

16. James Grant Forbes               8. Rev. John Murray Forbes                       17. Frances Elizabeth Blackwell               4. Francis Blackwell Forbes                             18. Benjamin Betterton Howell               9. Anne Howell                       19. Frances Howell               2. James Grant Forbes                                   20. Stephen Clark               10. William Mather Clark                       21. Roxanna Phelps               5. Isabel Clark                             22. John Staples               11. Isabella Staples                       23. Amy Purdy               1. Rosemary Isabel Forbes                                         24. Thomas Lindll Winthrop               12. Robert Charles Winthrop                       25. Elizabeth Bowdoin Temple               6. Robert Charles Winthrop, Jr.                             26. Francis Blanchard               13. Elizabeth Cabot Blanchard                       27. Mary Anne Cabot               3. Margaret Tyndal Winthrop                                   28. Jeremiah Mason               14. Robert Means Mason                       29. Mary Means               7. Elizabeth Mason                             30. Ebenezer Francis               15. Sarah Ellen Francis                       31. Elizabeth Thorndike

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)