Today we're served up the second death in a row of a guy whose sister married
into a royal family and whose death was announced by a lawyer. Patterns.
I don't think I have to bang this lesson over your head: one look at the headline
will give you the shiver and the motivation to spend some quality time with
your kids before they decide to bludgeon a neighbor with a golf club. Fore!
January 7, 2003
Rushton Skakel
Is Dead at 79; Father of Killer
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Rushton
Skakel, whose son Michael
was convicted last June of the 1975 killing of a neighbor, Martha
Moxley, in Greenwich,
Conn., died on Thursday in Hobe
Sound, Fla. He was 79.
He had frontal
lobe dementia, a brain illness, said his lawyer, Emanuel
Margolis.
Mr. Skakel was the brother of Ethel
Kennedy and the head of a family
business that was once one of the largest private companies in the country.
Mr. Skakel was one of seven children born to George
and Ann Skakel. His sister Ethel married Robert F. Kennedy in 1950. Senator
Kennedy was assassinated
in 1968.
Mr. Skakel took over the family business, Great
Lakes Carbon, in the 1960's, after the deaths of his parents and his brother
George Skakel Jr. in separate plane
crashes. The company manufactured carbon
coke.
That wealth was on display in the Tudor-style
home in the Belle
Haven section of Greenwich, where Mr. Skakel and his first wife, Anne Reynolds
Skakel, raised their seven children. She died of cancer in 1973 at 42.
Martha Moxley was 15 when she was bludgeoned
to death outside her family's home. Michael C. Skakel, who is serving 20 years
to life in prison, will not be permitted to attend his father's funeral, state
prison officials said yesterday.
Mr. Skakel is survived by his wife, Anna Mae Skakel; his daughter, Julie Skakel;
his sons, Rushton W. Jr., Thomas, John, Michael, David and Stephen; his stepdaughters,
Elizabeth Mallozzi and Jennifer Kennedy; his sisters, Ethel Kennedy and Ann
McCooey; 13 grandchildren; and two stepgrandchildren.
Copyright 2003 New York Times (Registration required)
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