Politics / Ted Kennedy Kennedy Funeral Saturday; Burial in Arlington By Matt Cantor, Newser Staff Posted Aug 26, 2009 1:54 PM CDT Copied Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, left, takes a stroll with his father, former ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy, on an open porch at New England Baptist Hospital in Boston, Dec. 8, 1964. (AP Photo) Ted Kennedy will be buried at Arlington Cemetery near his brothers, MSNBC reports. Other details are firming up: His funeral will be Saturday at Mission Church in Boston, and a two-day wake will take place Thursday and Friday at the JFK Library and Museum, also in Boston. Kennedy will be buried somewhere near JFK's eternal flame gravesite, where Bobby also lies. (More Ted Kennedy stories.) Report an error