Mary Richardson Kennedy’s Body at Center of Family Dispute
Published at
Charles Eshelman/FilmMagic(NEW YORK) — A dispute is brewing between Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the family of his estranged wife, Mary Richardson Kennedy, over where she will be memorialized and laid to rest.
Mary Kennedy’s body was found on Wednesday in an outbuilding on the couple’s property in Bedford, N.Y. She died of asphyxiation by hanging, New York’s Westchester County Medical Examiner’s office announced Thursday.
The Kennedys were planning to hold a wake for Mary Kennedy on Friday at the family’s mansion in Bedford, with funeral services to follow Saturday morning at St. Patrick’s Roman Catholic Church in Bedford.
Her family, however, wants a private memorial service in Manhattan.
There are also reports that the Kennedys want Mary Kennedy to be buried in Hyannisport, Mass., where the Kennedy family has long resided.
The medical examiner has refused to release Mary Kennedy’s body until the dispute is resolved.
Copyright 2012 ABC News Radio