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The Kennedy family Thursday night announced the death of Saoirse Kennedy Hill, the 22-year-old daughter of Courtney Kennedy Hill and Paul Hill and the granddaughter of the late Senator Robert F. Kennedy.
“Our hearts are shattered by the loss of our beloved Saoirse. Her life was filled with hope, promise and love. She cared deeply about friends and family, especially her mother Courtney, her father Paul, her stepmother Stephanie,” read the statement released by a family spokesman.
Courtney Kennedy Hill is the daughter of Robert and Ethel Kennedy, 91.
“The world is a little less beautiful today,” Ethel Kennedy said in the statement.
The statement did not identify a cause of death.
“She lit up our lives with her love, her peals of laughter and her generous spirit,” the family said in the statement. “Saoirse was passionately moved by the causes of human rights and women’s empowerment and found great joy in volunteer work, working alongside indigenous communities to build schools in Mexico. We will love her and miss her forever.”