Nancy Rockefeller

Nancy Rockefeller, 93, Community Volunteer. < Obituary > Jan. 23, 1994, New York Times.

Nancy Carnegie Rockefeller, a community leader and active volunteer in Greenwich, Conn., died at her home there yesterday. She was 93.

Family members said she died of natural causes.

An early champion of birth control, she helped establish the Greenwich Maternal Health Center in 1935. In recent years she had been concerned with the housing and care of the elderly in Greenwich and was a founder of the Merry-Go-Round, a center for the elderly, and the Mews, a residential hotel for older people.

She also was a president of the Hortulus Garden Club and a chairwoman of the Red Cross Gray Ladies. She received many awards, including Nutmegger of the Decade and a distinguished alumna award from the Foxcroft School.

Mrs. Rockefeller was the grandniece of Andrew Carnegie. Her husband, James Stillman Rockefeller, is a former president and chairman of Citibank and is a grandnephew of John D. Rockefeller.

She is also survived by two sons, James S. Jr. of Camden, Me., and Andrew C. of Greenwich; two daughters, Nancy Coop of Germantown, Tenn., and Georgia Rose of Manhattan; 14 grandchildren, and 24 great-grandchildren.

A version of this article appears in print on Jan. 23, 1994, Section 1, Page 30 of the National edition with the headline: Nancy Rockefeller, 93, Community Volunteer.

Family

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Stillman_Rockefeller

On April 15, 1925, he married Nancy Carnegie (d. 1994),[4] granddaughter of Thomas M. Carnegie and grandniece of Andrew Carnegie. Nancy helped establish the Greenwich Maternal Health Center in 1935.[4] Together, they had four children:

1. James Stillman Rockefeller Jr., who was married to Liv Coucheron Torp (d. 1969), who had previously been married to Thor Heyerdahl[5]
2. Nancy Sherlock Rockefeller, who married Barclay McFadden, Jr.[6] (d. 1973),[7][8] After his death, she married Daniel Noyes Copp (d. 2015)[9][10]
3. Andrew Carnegie Rockefeller, who married Jean Victoria Mackay[11]
4. Georgia Stillman Rockefeller, who married James Harden Rose[12]