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Observer-Reporter - Nov 16 1999 Pennsylvania Newspapers, 1795-2009
Text: "...TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1999 OBITUARIES Barbara bush's sister dies HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) Martha Pierce Rafferty, the sister of former first lady Barbara Bush and a fonner fashion model, has died. She ... was 79. Rafferty, who was one of Oie first presidents of the Junior Women's Republican Club of Hallford, died Saturday at lier bonie in Bloomfield, Conn., of natural causes, said her daughter, Sharon ... Patterson. Raised in Rye, she modeled for Vogue and other fashion magazines before her marriage to Walter G. Rafferty, a stockbroker who died in 1986. She also was a trustee of Oie School in West Hartford ... (Yom 1967 to 1971, and was active in gubernatorial campaign of John Alsop. In addition to her sister, the wife of former President ....
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From https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/188917584
Martha Pierce Rafferty, a former West Hartford resident and the sister of former first lady Barbara Bush, died Saturday. She was 79.
Rafferty was one of the first presidents of the Junior Women's Republican Club of Hartford and later was active in the gubernatorial campaign of John Alsop. She also was a trustee of Renbrook School in West Hartford from 1967 to 1971.
She grew up in Rye, N.Y., and was a model in Vogue and other fashion magazines prior to her marriage to Walter G. Rafferty.
She lived in West Hartford for many years, but maintained residences in Bloomfield and Fishers Island, N.Y., at the time of her death.
Aside from her sister Barbara Bush, of Houston, who was first lady from 1989 to 1993, Rafferty is survived by a brother, Scott Pierce of Rye, N.Y. She is also survived by six children, Sharon Patterson of Dayton, Ohio, Kevin Rafferty of New York, Corrine Rafferty of Minneapolis, Pierce Rafferty of New York, Brian Rafferty of Arlington, Mass., and Gail Rafferty of Burlington, Vt. She is also survived by nine grandchildren and a great-grandson.
Both her husband and her brother, James Pierce, died previously.
A memorial service for friends and family will be held Thursday, 2:30 p.m., at the Town & County Club, 22 Woodland St., Hartford. Molloy Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements
Citations
- MARTHA ANN PIERCE ENGAGED TO BE WED; Senior at Smith Will Be Bride of Walter Rafferty, Yale Junior
Special to THE New YORK TIMES.JUNE 9, 1941 link
- "Virginia, Marriage Certificates, 1936-1988," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QV1S-BDMH : 20 August 2018), Martha Ann Pierce in entry for Kevin Gelshenen Rafferty and Deborah Vaughan Kohloss, 03 Jan 1978; from "Virginia, Marriage Records, 1700-1850," database and images, Ancestry (http://www.ancestry.com : 2012); citing , Arlington, Virginia, United States, certificate 78 001059, Virginia Department of Health, Richmond.
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Martha Ann Rafferty's Timeline
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April 21, 1920
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New York, New York, United States
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| 1930 |
1930
Age 9
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Rye, Westchester, New York, USA
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1930
Age 9
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Rye, Westchester, New York
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1930
Age 9
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Rye, Westchester, New York, USA
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1948
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| 1999 |
November 14, 1999
Age 79
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Bloomfield, Hartford County, Connecticut, United States
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