Remembering Jackie Kennedy On This Solemn Anniversary
 

She demonstrated unimaginable courage and dignity as she led our Nation in mourning .

We tend to forget that at that time she was only 34 years old . When JFK took
Office she was age 31 .

She was only 64 when she passed away. Before her illness left her too weak she was still working as a Book Editor at Doubleday Publishing where she worked from 1978 until 1994 .

I worked with a fellow whose spouse also was an Editor at Doubleday . He shared that most often Jackie came into the office with carrying her lunch and snacks in a brown paper bag and often joined her fellow workers in the employee break-room .
I also knew a fellow employee at Chase Manhattan who was Jackie`s Private Banker . He told me that she was always very polite and dignified in every way . He also mentioned that she always sent him a personal note after every meeting they had , on his birthday and at Christmas .
Had she lived , today she would have been age 84 and Jack age 96 . Hard to imagine since in our minds they will be forever young and vibrant .

Carolyn has the class and beauty of her mom! Sad day with many memories

"We tend to forget that at that time she was only 34 years old . When JFK took Office she was age 31.....

....He (private banker) also mentioned that she always sent him a personal note after every meeting they had.."

This is what I've thought so often. She personified a good upbringing and why steady parenting and discipline and training in manners and politeness is so important. She showed that in raising Caroline and John, and said this:

"If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do well matters very much."

Her dignity and grace shows thru in her daughter, who has lost all her immediate family members under the microscopic lens of cameras around the world.