The last of the Kennedys who so dominated the politics of the 1960s, Bobby’s widow Ethel Skakel Kennedy, named “the most admired woman in America” after his assassination, still tools around the Cape in a flashy convertible and helps keep the clan together.

For Ethel Skakel Kennedy, yet another funeral is on her calendar—that of her beloved brother-in-law, Ted.

Just a couple of weeks ago, the widow of Bobby Kennedy and the sister-in-law of Jack Kennedy, who is also the mother of children who met untimely deaths, drove from her home in the Kennedy compound in Hyannis Port, Mass., to Cape Cod Hospital to visit her dying sister-in-law, Eunice. A few days later, she grieved and prayed as Eunice was laid to rest, surrounded by the survivors among her 11 children.