Brooke Astor, the doyenne Philanthropie and the high society, today died with 1:50 P.M. at the Stechpalme hill, their condition in the Briarcliff Manor, N.Y., according to Kenneth E. Warner, an attorney for Anthony D. marshal, their son. The cause of death was pneumonia, said it. Mrs Astor was 105.
A ring-back signal by Marilyn Berger offers a full account of the life of the Mrs Astors.
For nearly four decades Mrs Astor controlled the social scene of the city by its charm and generosity. Their Philanthropie began inheritance after death 1959 of its third married man, Vincent Astor, that to the fur and to the landed property of John Jacob Astor. Vincent Astor left its wife to approximately $60 million and a same quantity for a basis „for the easement of the human Suffering. “
Until the Vincent Astor basis liquidated its values 1997, Mrs Astor of the distribution of approx. $195 million had presided, nearly whole it to the next love and organizations in New York town center. It was Mrs Astor, which decided that, because most of the Astor of fortune New York in the real estates had been formed it should be spent in the city, for new Yorkers. Grants supported museums and libraries, youth associations, houses for the older persons, churches, boundary stones and other institutes and programs. Driven by a driver into Mercedes Benz, Mrs Astor traveled over the five cities, in order to evaluate the causes personally, the assistance of its basis looked for.
For the last year the treatment of their affairs and its Obacht were the topic of the controversy and court battles, in a sad footnote to its long and the life storied.
