BOSTON (AP) — The family of Ethel Kennedy, the widow of Robert F. Kennedy, says she was hospitalized after suffering a stroke.

In a statement from her daughter Kerry Kennedy on Tuesday evening, she did not name the hospital or location where she suffered the stroke.

“She is comfortable, receiving the best care possible and surrounded by her family,” the statement said. “She is, as you know, a strong woman who has lived a remarkably full life. We’ll take care of them.”

The 96-year-old matriarch is one of the last remaining members of the extended family generation that included President John F. Kennedy.

“She had a great summer and transition into fall,” the family statement said. “Every day she enjoyed spending time with her children, nieces, nephews, grandchildren and great-grandchildren. She was able to go out on the water, visit the pier, and enjoy many family lunches and dinners. It was a gift for all of us and for her too.”

For a generation of Americans, the Democratic Party clan was the closest thing the United States had to the royalty it had always admired elsewhere. The JFK era was called “Camelot” because the young president and his glamorous wife, Jacqueline Kennedy, inspired a sense of national optimism that was expressed in a line from the Broadway musical.

She was at Robert F. Kennedy’s side when he was fatally shot in the kitchen of the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles on June 5, 1968, shortly after he won the Democratic presidential primary in California. Her brother-in-law, President John F. Kennedy, had been assassinated in Dallas less than five years earlier.

The Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights, which she later founded in 1968, is dedicated to advancing human rights through litigation, advocacy, education and inspiration. The nonprofit also presents annual awards to journalists, authors and others who have made significant contributions to human rights. She was also active in the Coalition of Gun Control, the Special Olympics and the Earth Conservation Corps.

She remained socially active into her 90s, participating in a demonstration in support of higher wages for farm workers in Florida in 2016 and a hunger strike against the Trump administration’s immigration policies in 2018. She split her time between homes in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts, and Palm Beach, Florida.