Kara Kennedy Allen: 1960-2011

Kara Kennedy wipes a tear as President Barack Obama reads about her father, Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., as Mr. Obama awards him the 2009 Presidential Medal of Freedom during ceremonies in the East Room of the White House in Washington. The senator

Kara Kennedy Allen speaks during funeral services for Sen. Kennedy at the Basilica of Our Lady of Perpetual Help Aug. 29, 2009, in Boston.

Kara Kennedy Allen, second left, daughter of Sen. Edward Kennedy, and her children Max Greathouse Allen, center, and Grace Kennedy Allen, right, greet some of the thousands of people standing in line to see her father's body lie in repose outside the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum Aug, 28, 2009, in Boston.

The children of Sen. Edward Kennedy, Kara Kennedy Allen, right, Edward M. Kennedy, Jr. center, and Rep. Patrick J. Kennedy, D-R.I., stand near the Senate steps of the US Capitol to greet current and former staff of the senator who are paying their respects Aug. 29, 2009, in Washington.

President Barack Obama presents the Medal of Freedom to Kara Kennedy Allen on behalf of her father, Sen. Edward Kennedy, during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House, Aug. 12, 2010.

President Bill Clinton takes the helm of Senator Ted Kennedy's 52-foot schooner "Mya" in Vineyard Sound at Martha's Vineyard, Aug. 20, 1997. The Clintons sailed for three hours with Sen. Kennedy and his family during their first week of vacation. From left, Ted Kennedy's daughter Kara, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Ted Kennedy, six-year-old Rose Schlossberg, Ted Kennedy's wife Victoria, Bill Clinton and Ed Schlossberg, husband of Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg (not in picture).

In this May 20, 2008 file photo, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., smiles as he sits with his daughter Kara Kennedy Allen in a family room at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.

Sen. Edward Kennedy poses with his wife Victoria, right, son Ted Kennedy Jr., left, and daughter Kara Anne Kennedy Allen on July 1, 1997.

From left, Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, and Kara Kennedy listen as U.S. Sen. Ted Kennedy speaks Dec. 6, 2004, during an announcement regarding his participation in an oral history project sponsored by the Miller Center for Public Affairs.

The children of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., from left, Patrick, Edward M. Jr., and Kara, listen to their father speak during a Capitol Hill news conference in Washington, Dec. 1, 1982.

Sen. Edward Kennedy, second from right, poses for photos with wife Joan, left rear, and children Patrick, left front, Kara, center, and Edward Jr., right, during a family skiing trip in Massachusetts on Feb. 16, 1975.

This 1968 file photo shows Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., right, with wife Joan, left, son Ted Jr., left front, and daughter Kara, center rear, in Hyannisport, Mass.