Biden Commemorates 49th Death Anniv. of First Wife, Daughter (Photos)

U.S. President Joe Biden commemorated, on Saturday, the 49th anniversary of the car crash that killed his first wife and baby girl in 1972.

Accompanied by his current wife, Biden visited their graves at Saint Joseph on the Brandywine Roman Catholic church in Delaware, his home state.

Neilia and her daughter, Naomi, were killed in a car crash just after Delaware voters elected Biden to the Senate in 1972.

Reports mentioned that their car was broadsided while they were en route to pick up a Christmas tree. Beau and Hunter Biden, aged four and three, are the only two who survived the crash.

The president recently opened a speech in Minnesota by noting how two of that state’s former senators helped him cope as the tragedy has been a touchstone of his time in the White House.

The president married again and had a daughter, Ashley, with Dr. Jill, who is now the first lady. Both joined him at the church as well as Hunter and his family and others.

In 2015, Beau, an attorney general of Delaware, died of brain cancer.

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