Rosemary Forbes Kerry
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Rosemary Isabel Forbes (October 27, 1913 – November 14, 2002) was an American nurse and social activist.<ref name="BGObit2002">"Rosemary Kerry, 89; Advocate of Recycling, Senator's Mother", The Boston Globe, November 16, 2002.</ref><ref>"Rosemary Kerry, at 89, senator's mother, activist", The Boston Herald, November 16, 2002.</ref>
Early life
Rosemary Isabel Forbes was born in Paris, France, to American parents.<ref name="Evans2009">Template:Cite book</ref> She was one of eleven children of James Grant Forbes II of the Forbes family and Margaret Tyndal Winthrop of the Dudley–Winthrop family. Margaret was a granddaughter of politician Robert Charles Winthrop.<ref name="2004MSNBC">Template:Cite news</ref>
Work
She studied to be a nurse, and served in the Red Cross in Paris during World War II where she treated wounded soldiers at Montparnasse.<ref name="WWII2014">Template:Cite news</ref> According to her son John, Rosemary and her sister escaped from Paris on bicycles the day before the Nazis took the city. The sisters foraged their way across France while being shot at by German fighters, eventually making their way to Portugal before returning to the United States.<ref name="WWII2014"/>
Rosemary also was a Girl Scout leader at the troop and council level in Groton, Massachusetts, for 50 years.<ref name="BGObit2002"/>
Personal life
On February 8, 1941, she married Richard John Kerry<ref>Associated Press, Richard Kerry, Father of Sen. John Kerry, Dies, Lewiston Sun-Journal, July 31, 2000</ref> in Montgomery, Alabama. Kerry was a graduate of Yale University and Harvard Law School.<ref name="2004MSNBC"/> Richard and Rosemary met when Kerry took a sculpture class at the resort of Saint-Briac, where the Forbes family built the family estate. Together, they were the parents of four children:<ref name="BGObit2002"/><ref name="Sarasota">Sarasota Herald-Tribune, Miss Forbes, Lieut. Kerry Are Married, February 16, 1941</ref><ref>Boston Herald, Obituary: Richard J. KerryTemplate:Dead linkTemplate:Cbignore, July 31, 2000</ref>
- Margaret "Peggy" Kerry (b. 1941);<ref name="Sarasota"/>
- John Kerry (b. 1943), the former United States Secretary of State and 2004 Democratic nominee for President of the United States;
- Diana Kerry (b. 1947);<ref name="Shapiro2009">Template:Cite book</ref><ref name="Sarasota"/>
- Cameron Kerry (b. 1950), a Boston lawyer who was a General Counsel of the U.S. Department of Commerce and an adjunct law professor at Suffolk Law School.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Cameron Kerry is the father of two daughters, Diana and Elizabeth (Peggy).<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
Kerry died on November 14, 2002, at Manchester-by-the-Sea, Massachusetts.<ref name="BGObit2002"/> Upon her death, her son John inherited "trusts with $300,000 to $1.5 million in assets."<ref name="2004MSNBC"/>