Salt Lake Tribune | 1915-03-13 | Page 1 | Wife of Richest Man in the World Dies

MRS JOHN D ROCKL ILLLER bR wife of the lichest man in the world who died at her home in Tir rtowi N WIFE OF RICHEST MAN III IEJ0BL0 DIES Mrs Johri D Rockefeller Surfers Relapse After Apparent Ap-parent Improvement. T VRRYTOWN S T March 12 Mrs John D Rockefeller wife of the r chest man in the world died suddenly today in her seventy sixth year at the Rockefeller country home in Pocantice Hills. She had been an invalid for a yea Wrt during the last few montEs" her health had so improved that 'the rapid turn for the "worse which her ill ness took early this morning was not anticipated by her fam ly For th s reason it happened that the only relative at her beds de when she died at 10 "0 a in was her sister M ss Lucy M. Spelman Her husband and her son John D Rockefeller Jr were at Ormond, Fla where they went Mr Rockefeller Sr on February 28 and h s eon last Fr dav accompanied by his w f e believing that Mrs Rockefeller was grow ng better ot Bed over the long d stance telephone early today of the cntical change in her cond t on they left at once for Jacksonille where arrangements were qu ckly made for a special tra n to bring them to Jiew York. They were expected to arrive here some time tomorrow even ng Mrs E Parmalee Prent ce one of Mrs Rockefeller s two daughters was summoned from Iew "iork but failed to arrive before her mother s death The other daughter Mrs Harold Fowler McCormick of Ch cago is in Switzer land recuperating from an illness Her husband was about to sa 1 to join her but canceled his passage and came here at once Unt 1 the am al of Mr Rockefeller funeral arrangements w II be held n abeyan e but it was thought at the Rockefeller house today that burial undoubtedly would take place m Cleve land where the Rockefeller fam ly plot s Jocated. It was thought probable that funeral ser ices would be held at Pocantico Hills on Sunday and the body at once taken to Cleveland Mrs Pockefeller s illness dates back to the fall of 1912 when she was str ck on Tv th rtrienmnrilfl- She virtnnlW rp covered from th s at Hot Spr ngs Va but on return ng to Cleveland in J ne 1913 she aga n became 11 due largely to her weakened condit on and ad vanced years he rema ned in Cleve land unt 1 lebruarj 1914 when her phys c an decided that she was well enough to be taken to Jsew ork, go ng to the Rockefeller mans on there Last No ember Bhe was bro ght here M s Rockefeller had during this in te m become an inval d and was con fined to a wheel cha r most of the t me Her rooms in tho reat Pocantico Hills mans on opened out onto a large sunny balcony and here on fa r davs she spent many hours in the open air She was descr bed at the Eoel efeller home today as hav ng been lately m the best of sp rits only yesterday sending a cheery message to her son telling of her lm proved health The fatal change n her ipond t on ame during the ea ly morning hours Her nurses mmed ately summoned Dr Paul Allen of Jvew York her phys c an He made the thirty m le trip here at top speed n a h gh powered automo b Ie and althouph he arrived some t n e before her death he could do noth ng to avert tho end She had been unfQn scious for several hours and rema ned so to the last BRUNSWICK Ga March 1 -Wl 1 am Rockefeller who s at his w nter home on Jekyl sland w 11 not be per m tted b h s phys c an to attend the f neral of Mrs John D Rockefeller t was anno n ed hero toda Ho was ad v sed t wo Id be unsafe Mr 1 ocke felle ac ord n to h s secretar s huf fer ng fron be e e cold and h s phy s ns feared the effects of a colder 1 nate The sp etar added that M Ro kefell r s health was not materially I hangel for tho worse