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About Barbara 'Bobo' Sears Rockefeller
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/20/AR2...
Barbara Sears "Bobo" Rockefeller, 91, a coal miner's daughter and one-time actress whose "Cinderella wedding of the century" to millionaire Winthrop Rockefeller in 1949 soon gave way to bitter divorce proceedings, died May 19 at her home in Little Rock. No cause of death was reported.
Born Jievute Paulekiute, she first attracted notice as Miss Lithuania at the 1933 Chicago World's Fair. She later was Eva Paul onstage and Barbara Sears onscreen.
But her international fame -- a Time cover picture, a portrait by Salvador Dali -- was owed to her marriage to Rockefeller, heir to the Standard Oil fortune, a nightclubbing bon vivant and one of America's wealthiest bachelors. Their Florida wedding featured such guests as the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. ...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winthrop_Rockefeller
"... On 14 February 1948, Winthrop Rockefeller married Jievute Paulekiute, an actress and model who had worked professionally under the names "Eva Paul" and "Barbara Sears," and popularly known as "Bobo." She was the former wife of Boston Brahmin figure Richard Sears, Jr.[citation needed] The wedding took place in Florida, and at the reception, a choir sang Negro spirituals. Seven months later, Jievute gave birth to Rockefeller's only child, Winthrop Paul. The couple separated in 1950 and divorced in 1954. Bobo got custody of Win.“
References:
- Wikipedia-Winthrop Rockefeller
- Washinton Post obituary on Barbara
- Rockarch.org
- AmberAtlantic.org Rockefeller's mother was Lithuanian
- “Bobo Rockefeller, 91, Married Well, Divorced Better.” By STEPHEN MILLER, Staff Reporter of the Sun. May 21, 2008
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Barbara 'Bobo' Sears Rockefeller's Timeline
| 1916 |
September 6, 1916
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Noblestown, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States
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| 1948 |
September 17, 1948
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New York, New York, United States
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| 2008 |
May 19, 2008
Age 91
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Little Rock, Pulaski County, Arkansas, United States
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