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And they weren’t sure that my sons would live. My wife and three children were Christmas shopping, a tractor trailer broadsided them and killed my wife and killed my daughter. “While I was in Washington hiring staff, I got a phone call. “Six weeks after my election, my whole world was altered forever,” he said. Speaking about the tragedy in a speech at Yale in 2015, Biden described the moment he took that call.
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Hunter and Beau, who were four and three years old, were in critical condition. While out Christmas shopping, Biden received a phone call telling him Neilia and Naomi - who was just 13 months old - had been killed in a car accident. Just weeks after he was elected, while Biden was in Washington DC interviewing people to work in his new office, he received a phone call that would change his life forever. How did Joe Biden’s wife Neilia and daughter Naomi die? They succeeded and, in November that year Biden, then 30, won the seat from Republican incumbent J Caleb Boggs. In 1972, Biden ran for a Delaware seat in the US senate, with his wife playing a key role in his campaign. The couple went on to have three children - sons Beau and Hunter and daughter Naomi, who was nicknamed Amy. It’s my duty.’ Duty.Biden' first wife Neilia and their daughter Naomi are buried alongside his oldest son Beau Biden, who died of cancer in 2015, at a cemetery in Wilmington, Delaware. But so is the pride Jill and I feel in his service, as if I can still hear him saying, ‘Dad - it’s my duty, Dad. Jill Biden took time on Sunday to remember the presidents first wife and college sweetheart, Neilia Hunter Biden, and their 13-month. “As it is for so many of you, the pain of his loss is with us every day, but particularly sharp on Memorial Day. He told the audience that Tuesday “marks eight years since we lost our son Beau." While Tuesday's remembrance of Beau Biden was private, the president publicly mourned his son on Monday during a Memorial Day address at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia, just outside Washington.įor Biden, his son's death and the annual holiday honoring Americans who paid the ultimate sacrifice serving the United States in uniform are inextricably linked. She will attend her father’s alma mater, the University of Pennsylvania, in the fall.
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GOP responds after Schumer calls for new leadership in Israelīeau Biden is the son of Joe Biden and his late first wife, Neilia, who was killed in a 1972 car crash that gravely injured Beau and younger brother Hunter and killed their baby sister.īeau Biden’s daughter, Natalie, graduated from high school on Sunday, with her grandparents in the audience. The president later traveled to Veterans Memorial Park in New Castle for his annual tradition of paying his respects and laying flowers. In fact, all three of Biden’s children Beau and Hunter, his sons with his first wife, Neilia Biden. The first lady carried a bouquet of flowers. Ashley, Hunter, and Beau Biden at the 2012 Democratic National Convention. Joseph on the Brandywine, the Roman Catholic church where the president worships during weekends at his home near Wilmington, Delaware.Īfterward, the family visited Beau Biden’s gravesite in the church cemetery. President Joe Biden marked Tuesday’s eighth anniversary of one of the saddest days of his life, the death of his son Beau, by attending a memorial Mass and visiting his gravesite.īiden, his wife, Jill, and other family members prayed for Beau Biden during the Mass at St. Beau Biden was 46 years old when he died of brain cancer in 2015.The first lady carried a bouquet of flowers. Biden and his wife, Jill, prayed for Beau Biden on Tuesday during a special Mass at a Roman Catholic church near the president's home in Wilmington, Delaware.President Joe Biden is marking one of the saddest days of his life, the death of his son Beau.