Opinion Journal BotW: Gwen Kopechne, RIP

I can't improve on this:

Sad news form the Wilkes-Barre (Pa.) Times Leader:

A mother who lost her daughter in a well-publicized automobile accident in Massachusetts nearly 39 years ago was remembered Saturday as a caring woman who loved talking, drinking coffee and making pancakes for breakfast.

Gwen L. Kopechne, 89, died on Dec. 20 at the Valley Crest Nursing Home in Plains Township.

A small gathering of family and friends attended a Memorial Mass in her honor at All Saints Church in Plymouth.

Family photographs pasted on a board were placed near the altar, and two pictures showing Gwen, her late husband, Joseph, and their only daughter, Mary Jo, were placed on a table beneath a Pastoral candle.

Gwen was laid to rest in St. Vincent's Cemetery in Larksville next to her husband and Mary Jo, whose life immortalized the family when she was killed in the accident on Chappaquiddick Island on July 19, 1969.

Mrs. Kopechne lived almost four decades longer than her only child, who was 28 when she died. As far as we know, Ted Kennedy has no comment.

 

Comments

[Rachel]

I will never understand why her parents didn't destroy Teddy after he let their daughter die. They could have done that.

[bbmoe]

The Kennedys paid them off. Or threatened them. Or both. Through proxies, of course.

[Chris]

Or maybe they were just better people.

[Mac]

May she rest in peace, along with her husband and their beloved daughter.