Individual Details
Richard John Kerry
(28 Jul 1915 - 29 Jul 2000)
Richard John Kerry was born on July 28, 1915 in Massachusetts. After a stint in the U.S. Army Air Corps, he worked for the Foreign Service and served as an attorney for the Bureau of United Nations Affairs in the U.S. Department of State. In 1937, he met Rosemary Forbes, a member of the wealthy Forbes family. One of eleven children, she studied to be a nurse, and served in the Red Cross in Paris during World War II (she also was a Girl Scout leader for 50 years). The couple marriedin Montgomery, Alabama in January 1941.
Richard was an American Foreign Service officer and lawyer. He attended Phillips Academy and graduated from Yale University in 1937. He received his law degree from Harvard Law School in 1940.
Richard met Rosemary Forbes in 1938 in Saint Briac, France, where he was taking a course in the sculpture of ship models and she was training as a nurse and they were married February 8, 1941, in Montgomery, Alabama, while he was a Cadet in the Army Air Corps. Four children resulted from this marriage.
He joined the United States Army Air Corps in World War II so he could volunteer to become a test pilot. He flew DC-3s and B-29s until contracting tuberculosis, after which he was discharged.
Following his convalencance in Colorado, he returned to Massachusetts to become an Assistant United States Attorney. In 1949, he moved to Washington, D.C. to work in the office of the General Counsel for the Navy Department.
Entering the American foreign service, he served as a diplomat, both in the United States and at embassies in other nations, including Germany and Norway. He also served as a lawyer in the Bureau of United Nations Affairs.
Kerry wrote "The Star Spangled Mirror: America's Image of Itself and the World" in 1990.
Upon retirement he pursued his passion for sailing, making several Atlantic crossings, sailing the New England and Nova Scotia coasts solo, and racing sloops.
Kerry died in at Massachusetts General Hospital on July 29, 2000, of complications from prostate cancer.
He was the father of Senator John Kerry.
Richard was an American Foreign Service officer and lawyer. He attended Phillips Academy and graduated from Yale University in 1937. He received his law degree from Harvard Law School in 1940.
Richard met Rosemary Forbes in 1938 in Saint Briac, France, where he was taking a course in the sculpture of ship models and she was training as a nurse and they were married February 8, 1941, in Montgomery, Alabama, while he was a Cadet in the Army Air Corps. Four children resulted from this marriage.
He joined the United States Army Air Corps in World War II so he could volunteer to become a test pilot. He flew DC-3s and B-29s until contracting tuberculosis, after which he was discharged.
Following his convalencance in Colorado, he returned to Massachusetts to become an Assistant United States Attorney. In 1949, he moved to Washington, D.C. to work in the office of the General Counsel for the Navy Department.
Entering the American foreign service, he served as a diplomat, both in the United States and at embassies in other nations, including Germany and Norway. He also served as a lawyer in the Bureau of United Nations Affairs.
Kerry wrote "The Star Spangled Mirror: America's Image of Itself and the World" in 1990.
Upon retirement he pursued his passion for sailing, making several Atlantic crossings, sailing the New England and Nova Scotia coasts solo, and racing sloops.
Kerry died in at Massachusetts General Hospital on July 29, 2000, of complications from prostate cancer.
He was the father of Senator John Kerry.
Events
| Birth | 28 Jul 1915 | Brookline, Norfolk County, Massachusetts | |||
| Marriage | 8 Feb 1941 | Montgomery County, Alabama - Rosemary Isabel Forbes | |||
| Death | 29 Jul 2000 | Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts | |||
| Burial | Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts |  |
Families
| Spouse | Rosemary Isabel Forbes (1913 - 2002) |
| Child | Living |
| Father | Frederick A. Kerry (1873 - 1921) |
| Mother | Ida Lowe (1877 - 1960) |
Notes
Burial
On July 2, 2014, a FAG'er reported that there is no gravestone marker in this cemetery. Specifically they reported the following:This person is listed as being in "cremations." The cemetery office told me this means that they were only cremated at Mt. Auburn, but have been buried elsewhere.