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DATE: SUNDAY, March 18, 1990                   TAG: 9003182498
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: C3   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: The New York Times
DATELINE: NEW YORK                                 LENGTH: Short

ROCKEFELLER FAMILY MEMBER DIES IN N.Y.

William Rockefeller, a former president of the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and a former chairman of New York's Metropolitan Opera Association, died of lung cancer on Friday at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in Manhattan. He was 71 and had homes in Rye, N.Y., and Paul Smiths, N.Y.

He was a great-grandnephew of John D. Rockefeller Sr. and had been a partner in the Manhattan law firm of Shearman & Sterling since the mid-1950s.

At the time of his death, Rockefeller was the chairman of the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation in Morristown, N.J., which makes grants to support secondary education and the arts.

A 1940 graduate of Yale University, Rockefeller was chairman of the university's alumni board from the late 1960s to the mid-1970s.

He earned his law degree from Columbia University in 1948.

Rockefeller is survived by his wife, Mary; three daughters, Sarah, of Lake Clear, N.Y., Mary Fogarty of Rye and Edith Laird of Seattle; his mother, Florence Farr of Manhattan; a brother, Frederic, of Barrington, R.I.; two sisters, Anne Morrison of Colorado Springs, Colo., and Florence DeVecchi of Cambridge, Mass., and six grandchildren.

by CNB