Tatiana Schlossberg was remembered at a private funeral on Jan. 5 at St. Ignatius of Loyola, the same New York City church that hosted the memorial service for her grandmother, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.
The funeral for Schlossberg, who died Dec. 30 after being diagnosed with a rare form of leukemia, was attended by a collection of dignitaries and celebrities, including former President Joe Biden, House Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi, David Letterman and several of Schlossberg’s cousins, including Maria Shriver.
A source who attended said Schlossberg’s brother, Jack Schlossberg, welcomed mourners, while her husband, George Moran, with whom she had two young kids, delivered the eulogy. Her sister, Rose Schlossberg, gave a reading.
Tatiana Schlossberg was the daughter of Caroline Kennedy and Edwin Schlossberg and one of three grandchildren of John F. Kennedy. Caroline Kennedy could be seen carrying Tatiana’s daughter, Josephine, 1, out of the church. Moran was also seen holding their son, Edwin, born in 2022.
In November — on the 62nd anniversary of the day her grandfather was assassinated — Schlossberg revealed in an essay for The New Yorker that, shortly after the 2024 birth of her daughter, she had been diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia, which she described as “terminal.”
“My parents and my brother and sister, too, have been raising my children and sitting in my various hospital rooms almost every day for the last year and a half. They have held my hand unflinchingly while I have suffered, trying not to show their pain and sadness in order to protect me from it” she wrote.
“For my whole life, I have tried to be good, to be a good student and a good sister and a good daughter, and to protect my mother and never make her upset or angry,” she added. “Now I have added a new tragedy to her life, to our family’s life, and there’s nothing I can do to stop it.”
Jackie Kennedy Onassis was laid to rest in May 1994 after her death at 64 from non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, a type of cancer that affects the lymphatic system, per Mayo Clinic. After the funeral at the Church of St. Ignatius Loyola, she was buried at Arlington National Cemetery beside her first husband.
Schlossberg was a Yale and Oxford graduate who worked as a science reporter for The New York Times. She also wrote the 2019 book “Inconspicuous Consumption: The Environmental Impact You Don’t Know You Have.”
Throughout the service, Schlossberg was remembered for her passion for reporting on climate change.
In 2019, she spoke with TODAY about her work.
“I think climate change is the biggest story in the world,” she said at the time. “It’s a story about everything. It’s about science and nature, but it’s also about politics and health and business. To me, looking at this as a journalist, it felt like a really important story to tell, and if I could help communicate about it that might inspire other people to get involved and work on the issue.”
On the day of her funeral, Schlossberg was also remembered in public tributes. The Instagram account for the JFK Library Foundation shared a photo of Schlossberg with her husband and two children taken in the months before her death.
Jack Schlossberg also posted a quote from her book that read, in part: “It’s up to us to create a country that takes seriously its obligations to the planet, to each other, and to the people who will be born into a world that looks different than ours has for the last 10,000 years or so.”
Tatiana Schlossberg, the journalist and author who was a granddaughter of John F. Kennedy, has died after revealing she had been diagnosed with cancer, her family announced Tuesday.
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