Kennedy Family Matriarch Ethel Kennedy Hospitalized After Suffering Stroke

The Kennedy family has asked for privacy while Ethel Kennedy undergoes treatment.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (L), Ethel Kennedy (2nd L), Kerry Kennedy (2nd R), and Mariah Kennedy Cuomo (R) attend an event at New York Hilton Midtown in New York, on Dec. 11, 2013. Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images

Ethel Kennedy, the 96-year-old widow of late U.S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy Sr., was hospitalized after suffering a stroke last week, her family said on Tuesday.

Her grandson, former Massachusetts congressman Joe Kennedy III, said the Kennedy matriarch suffered a stroke in her sleep on Oct. 3 and has been taken to the hospital for treatment.