‘She Fought Like a Warrior’

CAROLINE KENNEDY LOSES HER DAUGHTER TATIANA—‘A PERFECT DAUGHTER, SISTER, MOTHER’—TO A RARE CANCER AT 35

- LIZ McNEIL

On the bleak, cold afternoon of Monday, Jan. 5, Caroline Kennedy laid her 35-year-old daughter Tatiana to rest. Dressed in a black wool suit, Caroline walked into the limestone church of St. Ignatius Loyola in New York City accompanied by her husband, Ed Schlossberg, 80, and their children Rose, 37, and Jack, 32.

She wore Carolina Herrera, who also designed her mother's 1986 wedding dress.

They were preceded by Tatiana’s widower, George Moran, 36, and their children, 3-year-old Edwin, wearing a tiny blue blazer, and 18-month-old Josephine, whom Caroline later gently held in her arms.

Six days earlier the family had announced the death of their “beautiful Tatiana,” writing, “She will always be in our hearts.” Her cousin Maria Shriver marveled at her bravery: “She fought like a warrior. She was valiant, strong, courageous…a perfect daughter, sister, mother, cousin, niece, friend, all of it.”

It was yet another unimaginable loss to befall the storied political dynasty: not only a young woman leaving behind her husband and their two small children, but also a heartbroken, famously private mother, Caroline, 68, who had already lived through the assassination of her father, President John F. Kennedy, followed by that of her uncle Robert F. Kennedy and the death of her younger brother John in a fatal plane crash.