Post by - on Aug 14, 2009 21:53:58 GMT -4
Her funeral was today on the Cape. The Shrivers lived not too far from us. They were devoted to Holy Cross Catholic Church. In the early 60's they had a beautiful home at the end of a street next to Hank Deetles. Ann may remember....
Eunice before starting Special Olympics, also had an orphanage on the same road, for mentally disabled. It was a scary place for us kids, as we did not understand...
This is when she started Special Olympics in their yard. Now there is a beautiful housing development there. I remember in HS that some of our seniors brought some of the Shriver's cows to the 2nd floor of Woodward. Cows can walk up , but they can't walk down.
Many years later.... I managed Guy Laroche Boutique at the Watergate. The same building that Sargent Shriver had his office at 700 New Hampshire Avenue.
I had the distinct pleasure of meeting Eunice. In he New England accent she told me that when her father was a diplomat to France, her mother scorned her for wearing tennis shoes when shopping at a fine ladies store. She came in with knee highs and sneakers. But that was Eunice. Or the one that I knew. And she was full of vigor and life !
What I will always remember when I met her with her sister Rosemary in her wheel chair. Rosemary was Eunice's determination to help disabled people.
Another Christmas, her husband and their boys came to Valentino Boutique, and her husband was a joy and funny. One could recognize that he is in the stages of dementia.
All I can say is that I have had the great pleasure of getting to know this wonderful family. And her sons as well.
May God Bless Eunice Shriver, and all that she did for special needs children. Her work will live on forever .
-CG
Eunice before starting Special Olympics, also had an orphanage on the same road, for mentally disabled. It was a scary place for us kids, as we did not understand...
This is when she started Special Olympics in their yard. Now there is a beautiful housing development there. I remember in HS that some of our seniors brought some of the Shriver's cows to the 2nd floor of Woodward. Cows can walk up , but they can't walk down.
Many years later.... I managed Guy Laroche Boutique at the Watergate. The same building that Sargent Shriver had his office at 700 New Hampshire Avenue.
I had the distinct pleasure of meeting Eunice. In he New England accent she told me that when her father was a diplomat to France, her mother scorned her for wearing tennis shoes when shopping at a fine ladies store. She came in with knee highs and sneakers. But that was Eunice. Or the one that I knew. And she was full of vigor and life !
What I will always remember when I met her with her sister Rosemary in her wheel chair. Rosemary was Eunice's determination to help disabled people.
Another Christmas, her husband and their boys came to Valentino Boutique, and her husband was a joy and funny. One could recognize that he is in the stages of dementia.
All I can say is that I have had the great pleasure of getting to know this wonderful family. And her sons as well.
May God Bless Eunice Shriver, and all that she did for special needs children. Her work will live on forever .
-CG