Paternal family background

Kerry's paternal grandfather, Frederick A. Kerry (born Fritz Kohn), was born on May 10, 1873 in the town of Horní Benešov, Austria-Hungary (in what is now the Moravian-Silesian Region of the Czech Republic), and grew up in Mödling, Austria (a small town near Vienna). His wife Ida (née Loewe) was born in Budapest, Hungary. They were both German-speaking Ashkenazi Jews. But in 1901, Fritz Kohn converted from Judaism to Catholicism and changed his name to Frederick Kerry. His wife Ida also converted at the same time. They then immigrated to the United States, arriving at Ellis Island in 1905. They raised their three children, including John's father, as Catholics. A Czech historian believes that Ida was a descendant of Sinai Loew, one of three older brothers of Rabbi Judah Loew (1525-August 22, 1609), a famous Kabbalist, philosopher and talmudist known as the Maharal of Prague. Two of Ida Kohn's siblings, Otto Loewe and Jenni Loewe, died in the Nazi extermination camps (Theresienstadt and Treblinka, respectively), after being deported from Vienna in 1942. Frederick Kerry himself committed suicide in the Copley Plaza Hotel in Boston on November 23, 1921.

Kerry's father, Richard John Kerry, was born on July 28, 1915 in Massachusetts. After a stint in the U.S. Army Air Corps, he worked for the Foreign Service and served as an attorney for the Bureau of United Nations Affairs in the U.S. Department of State.

In 1937, Richard Kerry met Rosemary Forbes, a member of the wealthy Forbes family. One of 11 children, she studied to be a nurse, and served in the Red Cross in Paris during World War II (she also was a Girl Scout leader for 50 years). The couple married in Montgomery, Alabama in January 1941.

OMG I MISSED AN IMPORTANT DETAIL!!! HIS MOM'S FAMILY WAS IN THE OPIUM TRADE!!!

Secret Societies are fine... And I'd marry for money in a heartbeat.

This whole thing has a hidden meaning, to attack Hev's Prescott Bush thing. Just incase you havent realized that or if i forgot that I wrote that in the first paragraph of this topic.

ahh didn't even notice that cuz. Good point!

I would love to have money, there is only one person in my entire family that is even in the upper middle class, lol.

Not me, I'd really like to be dirt poor and living in a slum...

I hope you are being saracstic but knowing you it wasnt. You are really weird, but thats what makes you awesome... Sometimes...lol.

I was being sarcastic, teasing you for making the obvious statement that you'd like to have money. We all would.

Hahahaha!