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18, 2021, the anniversary of Neilia and Naomi Biden's death.įive years after her death, the Neilia Hunter Biden park was dedicated in her honor. Joseph on the Brandywine Catholic Church in Wilmington, Del., on Saturday, Dec. Is Joe Biden uniquely qualified for this moment? Neilia's original flat headstone there reads, 'Death lies on her like an early frost, upon the sweetest flower of all the field,' a slightly altered quote from Shakespeare's 'Romeo & Juliet.'ĭELAWARE'S OWN: Americans are grieving. his mother, Jean and his elder son, Beau. The Biden family plot there also includes the graves of Biden's father, Joseph Sr. Joseph's on the Brandywine in Greenville, the Catholic church where the Biden family now worships. Neilia and Naomi Biden were buried in All Saints Cemetery off Kirkwood Highway, but the graves were later moved to the cemetery at St. He has been known to attend funerals, once for a woman who donated $18 to every one of his campaigns. For the past 40 years, he has privately comforted grieving people in Delaware. Grief and tragedy have come to define Biden as a politician and now as president. 'I don't know the Kennedys, but I don't think they could be half as great as the Bidens,' Neilia told The News Journal.Ī HOLIDAY MYSTERY: Who is decorating 2 trees in Hockessin? Some wonder if there is a Biden crash connection. When Biden was a New Castle County councilman, The News Journal likened the Bidens to the Kennedys. Neilia, a Republican, registered to become a Democrat. When Biden first started his career in politics, she helped organize her husband’s campaigns. Neilia, The News Journal reported at the time, had ambition to get her doctorate and teach at a college when her children were older. The couple married in 1966 and moved to Delaware to begin their family. “He was Irish Catholic and we were Scotch Presbyterian, but they liked him too much to say no.”Ī LASTING LEGACY: Neilia Hunter Biden, the brains behind Joe Biden's first victories 'I guess the only time I got in trouble with my parents was when I wanted to marry Joe,” Neilia told The News Journal in an interview. She earned a master's degree in education from Syracuse and taught English and worked with children with cognitive disabilities. Neilia and Amy died six weeks later in a car accident in Hockessin. © 2024 NYP Holdings, Inc.In this November 1972 photo, Neilia Hunter Biden holds baby daughter Naomi 'Amy' and talks to the crowd celebrating Joe Biden's stunning upset over J. AP Photo/Manuel Balce Cenetaīeau, who died of brain cancer in May 2015, sustained a broken leg, and Hunter, then 3, had a fractured skull. Joseph on the Brandywine Roman Catholic Church in Wilmington, Delaware on Decemto visit the graves of his first wife and daughter on the 50th anniversary of their death. President Biden and First Lady Jill Biden leave St.

18, 1972, when 30-year-old Neilia took Naomi and their two sons - Beau and Hunter - in the car to buy a Christmas tree.

The president, 80, was the senator-elect from Delaware on Dec. Joseph on the Brandywine Roman Catholic Church near the family’s Wilmington, Del., home.įollowing the “private family memorial Mass,” according to the White House, they walked over to the church graveyard where Neilia Biden and Naomi, who was 13 months old at the time of the accident, are buried. The president, first lady Jill Biden, daughter Ashley, son Hunter Biden and several grandchildren carrying a wreath attended Mass at St. President Biden, accompanied by family members, visited the gravesites of his first wife and infant daughter who were killed in a car crash 50 years ago Sunday. Hedgie says he’ll donate $1M to Biden’s Dem challenger after calling for prez to drop out Joe Biden proves he isn’t serious about ‘saving’ democracy with his selfish ambitionsīiden’s Iran containment strategy failing as Islamic regime gets closer to nuclear weapon: experts Eric Adams plays both hero and villain - but loses public trust in the process

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