Nancy Ariana Hector

Heyden White Wed to Charles Rostow Published: November 1, 1987

Ariana van der Heyden White, a daughter of Mrs. Louis J. Hector of New York and Coconut Grove, Fla., and the late Theodore H. White, was married last evening to Charles Nicholas Rostow, a son of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene V. Rostow of Washington and Peru, Vt. Rabbi Gunter Hirschberg performed the ceremony at Congregation Rodeph Sholom in New York. He was assisted by Rabbi David Teutsch and Cantor Ephraim Biran.

Perilla Kinchin attended the bride, who is known as Heyden. Victor Rostow was best man for his brother.

The bride, a graduate of the Concord Academy and Radcliffe College, received a graduate degree in Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic languages and literature from Cambridge University. She was formerly a teacher of English at the Brearley School. Her father was the Pulitzer Prize-winning author and journalist whose works included the Making of the President books.

Mr. Rostow received a bachelor's degree, a doctorate in history and a law degree from Yale University. He is the deputy legal adviser to the National Security Council. His previous marriage ended in divorce. His father, formerly the dean of the Yale Law School, is a professor of law and diplomacy at the National Defense University in Washington; he was Under Secretary of State for political affairs from 1966 to 1969 and was the director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency from 1981 to 1983. The bridegroom's mother, Edna Rostow, who was a psychotherapist at Yale, is the editor of The Atlantic Community Quarterly in Washington.

Photo of Heyden Rostow (Christopher Little)

Published in The Miami Herald from 8/28/2007 - 9/2/2007.   HECTOR, NANCY BEAN, born September 8, 1922, died at home in New York on August 24, 2007. She lived in Miami for twenty-nine years and returned to New York, following the death of her beloved husband, Louis J. Hector, in November 2005. A journalist at Life Magazine and the NY Times Sunday Magazine, as well as the author of a children's biography of John F. Kennedy, she moved through her life clearly, generously and with unpretentious elegance. She faced her last years courageously, and she will be remembered as a person of integrity, the life of the party, a wise soul, a wonderful friend, a devoted member of the Cosmopolitan Club, Junior Fortnightly, and The Club--and also as a lifelong, outspoken, liberal Democrat. She also served as President of Planned Parenthood of Miami. Previously married to Theodore H. White and Charles Dewey Hilles, she is survived by her children David F. White (Margaret) and Heyden White Rostow (Nicholas), both of New York, NY; her Hector stepchildren Denis (Joanna Lombard) of Coconut Grove, FL, William, of Richmond, VA, Anne, of San Francisco, CA, and Jay (Hilde Darre), also of New York; and seven grand- and step-grandchildren Margaret White,Theodore and Celia Rostow, and Dorothy Anne, William, Henry and Anna Hector. Memorial contributions may be made to Planned Parenthood. There will be a celebration of her life later this fall. To visit this Guest Book Online, go to www.MiamiHerald.com/obituaries.