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The Resource The missing Kennedy : Rosemary Kennedy and the secret bonds of four women, Elizabeth Koehler-Pentacoff

The missing Kennedy : Rosemary Kennedy and the secret bonds of four women, Elizabeth Koehler-Pentacoff

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Rosemary (Rosie) Kennedy was born in 1918, the first daughter of a wealthy Bostonian couple who later would become known as the patriarch and matriarch of America's most famous and celebrated family. Elizabeth Koehler was born in 1957, the first and only child of a struggling Wisconsin farm family. What, besides their religion, did these two very different Catholic women have in common? One person: Stella Koehler, a charismatic woman of the cloth, and Elizabeth's Wisconsin aunt. For thirty-five years Sister Paulus was Rosie Kennedy's caregiver. And a caregiver, tragically, had become necessary after Rosie underwent one of America's first lobotomies--an operation Joseph Kennedy was assured would normalize Rosie's life. After the procedure, Rosie was sent to rural Wisconsin and Saint Coletta, a Catholic-run home for the mentally disabled. For the next two decades, she never saw her siblings, her parents, or any other relative. Following Joseph Kennedy's stroke in 1961, the Kennedy family resumed face to face contact with Rosie. It was also about then that a young Elizabeth Koehler began paying visits to Rosie. In this insightful and poignant memoir, based in part on Sister Paulus' private notes and augmented by over one-hundred never-before-seen photos, Elizabeth Koehler-Pentacoff recalls the many happy and memorable times spent with the missing Kennedy
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eng
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xi, 260 pages
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9781610881746
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The missing Kennedy : Rosemary Kennedy and the secret bonds of four women
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The missing Kennedy
Title remainder
Rosemary Kennedy and the secret bonds of four women
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Elizabeth Koehler-Pentacoff
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Language
eng
Summary
Rosemary (Rosie) Kennedy was born in 1918, the first daughter of a wealthy Bostonian couple who later would become known as the patriarch and matriarch of America's most famous and celebrated family. Elizabeth Koehler was born in 1957, the first and only child of a struggling Wisconsin farm family. What, besides their religion, did these two very different Catholic women have in common? One person: Stella Koehler, a charismatic woman of the cloth, and Elizabeth's Wisconsin aunt. For thirty-five years Sister Paulus was Rosie Kennedy's caregiver. And a caregiver, tragically, had become necessary after Rosie underwent one of America's first lobotomies--an operation Joseph Kennedy was assured would normalize Rosie's life. After the procedure, Rosie was sent to rural Wisconsin and Saint Coletta, a Catholic-run home for the mentally disabled. For the next two decades, she never saw her siblings, her parents, or any other relative. Following Joseph Kennedy's stroke in 1961, the Kennedy family resumed face to face contact with Rosie. It was also about then that a young Elizabeth Koehler began paying visits to Rosie. In this insightful and poignant memoir, based in part on Sister Paulus' private notes and augmented by over one-hundred never-before-seen photos, Elizabeth Koehler-Pentacoff recalls the many happy and memorable times spent with the missing Kennedy
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Biography type
individual biography
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10450888
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IEB
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Koehler-Pentacoff, Elizabeth
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
no index present
LC call number
RC464.K394
LC item number
K64 2015
Literary form
non fiction
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  • Kennedy, Rosemary
  • Paulus
  • Koehler-Pentacoff, Elizabeth
  • Kennedy family
  • Kennedy, Joseph P.
  • Kennedy, Rose Fitzgerald
  • People with mental disabilities
  • Women with mental disabilities
  • Frontal lobotomy
  • Mental retardation
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a memoir of family, silence, and transformation
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The missing Kennedy : Rosemary Kennedy and the secret bonds of four women, Elizabeth Koehler-Pentacoff
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-258)
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volume
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  • nc
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rdacarrier
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text
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  • txt
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rdacontent
Dimensions
24 cm
Extent
xi, 260 pages
Isbn
9781610881746
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unmediated
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rdamedia
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  • n
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illustrations
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(OCoLC)921998274
Label
The missing Kennedy : Rosemary Kennedy and the secret bonds of four women, Elizabeth Koehler-Pentacoff
Publication
Copyright
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-258)
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Dimensions
24 cm
Extent
xi, 260 pages
Isbn
9781610881746
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
illustrations
System control number
(OCoLC)921998274

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