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-- Mourners will say goodbye Saturday to R. Sargent Shriver, the man responsible for launching the Peace Corps after marrying into the Kennedy family.
Shriver, 95, died Tuesday after suffering from Alzheimer's disease for years. His funeral Mass will take place at 10 a.m. in Potomac, Maryland.
Guests will include Vice President Joe Biden, first lady Michelle Obama and media mogul Oprah Winfrey. Biden is expected to deliver remarks.
"He lived to make the world a more joyful, faithful and compassionate place," his family said in a statement. "He worked on stages both large and small but in the end, he will be best known for his love of others. No one ever came into his presence without feeling his passion and his enthusiasm for them."
President Barack Obama described Shriver as "one of the brightest lights of the greatest generation."
"Of his many enduring contributions, he will perhaps best be remembered as the founding director of the Peace Corps, helping make it possible for generations of Americans to serve as ambassadors of goodwill abroad," Obama said.
After overseeing the Peace Corps launch in the early 1960s, Shriver went on to serve subsequent presidential administrations. He kept up his activism throughout his life, becoming a chief architect of President Lyndon B.
Johnson's war on poverty and later heading the Special Olympics founded by his wife, Eunice Kennedy Shriver.
The Peace Corps is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. More than 200,000 volunteers have served in 139 countries on issues such as education, public health and environmental preservation.
Shriver's entree into the Kennedy family was Joseph P. Kennedy, the family patriarch, who hired him to run a business venture in Chicago. The work led to an introduction to Eunice Kennedy, whose siblings included JFK, Robert F. Kennedy and Ted Kennedy.
After his brother-in-law John F. Kennedy was assassinated in 1963, Shriver was tapped by Johnson to launch the White House Office of Economic Opportunity, which was made up of a handful of anti-poverty programs.
He also served as Republican President Richard Nixon's ambassador to France before becoming Democrat George McGovern's running mate in 1972, as the two unsuccessfully tried to unseat Nixon.
Shriver also served as chairman of the board of Special Olympics International, which Eunice Kennedy Shriver founded in 1968. The organization sponsors sports training events around the world for people with intellectual disabilities.
Shriver was born in Westminster, Maryland, and graduated from Yale University. He was also long active in the Roman Catholic Church.
Eunice Kennedy Shriver died in 2009.
The Shrivers had five children, including Maria Shriver, the former first lady of California.