India, Oct. 8 -- Joan Bennett Kennedy, the former wife of Sen Edward M Kennedy, has died. She was 89. She was one of the last remaining members of a family generation that included President John F Kennedy. A model and classically-trained pianist, she married Ted Kennedy in 1958.

Bennett died at her home in Boston, according to GoLocalProv's obituary. She was born on September 2, 1936, in Bronxville, New York, to a Roman Catholic family. She met Ted Kennedy at a 1957 dedication at Manhattanville College and married him on November 29, 1958, in a small ceremony.

The couple had three children: Kara (1960-2011, who died of a heart attack after battling lung cancer), Edward M. "Ted" Kennedy Jr. (born 1961, who lost part of his right leg to ...