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Show JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER I John D. Rockefeller, who died at his winter home at Ormond Beach, Fla., at the age of ninety-seven, after af-ter making more than a billion dollars dol-lars and giving away three-fourths of it for philanthropic, educational and medical research activities. The patriarch was buried at Cleveland, Ohio, where 80 years ago he began work as a penniless youth. Mr. Rockefeller, whose ambition was to live to one hundred, left 38 descendants. descend-ants. Had he lived another month he would have been ninety-eight. |