JFK’s grandson Jack Schlossberg, 32, attends sister Tatiana’s funeral after her death from cancer at 35; President Biden also present.

Grief settled over Manhattan like a quiet winter dawn as family and friends gathered to say goodbye to Tatiana Celia Kennedy Schlossberg.

A beloved journalist, author, daughter, mother, and granddaughter of President John F. Kennedy. Her funeral, held on January 5, 2026 at the historic Church of St. Ignatius Loyola on Manhattan’s Upper East Side.

Stood as both a private family farewell and a public reflection on a life of purpose interrupted far too soon. Tatiana died on December 30, 2025, at just 35 years old after a determined and deeply personal struggle with acute myeloid leukemia, a rare and aggressive form of blood cancer.

She had publicly revealed her diagnosis only six weeks earlier in a poignant essay titled “A Battle With My Blood,” published in The New Yorker, where she wrote candidly about the shock of discovering her illness following routine blood tests after the birth of her second child.

The solemn service drew close family members, childhood friends, colleagues from the world of journalism, environmental advocates, and prominent public figures whose lives she had touched.

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