The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-24

room where the funeral of Laura
 Spelman Rockefeller, Rockfeller's
 wife, was held 9 years ago. Only
 members of the family, and perhaps a few old servants, will attend.
 Rockefeller is survived by 38 liv- ing descendants. He had but one son and only one of four daughters Mrs. Edith Rockefeller Mccormick, who married the harvester king was well known to the public. Only
 one of the four daughters, Alta Rockefeller, wife of E. Parmalee Prenctice, survives. aavs
 John Davison, Jr., his son, has five sons, John Davison, III, Nelson Ald- rich, Laurance Spelman, Winthrop, and David. Nelson Aldrich married Mary Todhunter Clark in 1930 and they have two sons, Rodman and Steven. John D. III married Blan- chette Ferry Hooker in 1882 and they have daughter, Sandra.
 Rockefeller Grandchildren These are the grandchildren who bear the name of Rockefeller. Through John D. Jr.'s one daugh- ter, Abby, and three of his own daughters, he had nine other grand children. His daughter Bessie mar ried Charles Augustus Strong and their one daughter, Margaret, mar ried George De Cuevas in 1927 and is the mother of Elizabeth and John De Cuevas. Mrs. Prentice is the mother of John Rockefeller, Mary Adeline R. and Spelman Prentice. Mrs. McCormick's eldest son, John Rockefeller Mccormick and her daughter, Editha, are dead. Her second son, Harold Fowler McCor- mick, Jr., is the husband of the former Mrs. James Stillman. Her daughter, Mathide married Max Oser, a Swiss, and they have two children, Anita and Peter Max. Her other daughter, Muriel, is Mrs. Elisha Dyer Hubbard.
 Of these relatives all but a few were either at Tarrytown or en- route. Mrs. Oser lives in Europe. Nelson and Winthrop Rockefeller were in Central America, Nelson with his wife, or their way home from a visit to Peru. They too will be unable to reach Tarrytown in time for the funeral.
 Knew Him We'll
 These, the close members of his | family, were the people who knew | well. For the rest of l the world he was almost a legen- dary figure, an old man in golf l cap, its flaps pulled down over his ears, heavily swathed in overcoat, tired, old eyes looking through ] thick lenses from 8 tired, wrinkled old face. He was guarded closely and preciously. His routine was precise. Winters he spent at his beautiful estate here, surrounded by orange groves and the tools of scientific horticulture, in contract to the poverty of the New York state farm where he was born and reared. Summers he spent at his estate near Lakewood, N. J., guarded by the same men, attended by the same .4
 After his death, pr. Merryday de- 1ied one of the many legends that lad grown up around him-that he vas nourished as carefully and sci- ,ntifically as a rare, highly valued plant. On the contrary, Dr. Merry lay said, he could eat almost any, hing that anyone else ate, with the of heavy meats and weets. He had the choice of 16 and when he had guests or dinners he had what they had. )r. Merryday and others affirmed [ hat up until the last, he was in of his faculties. {
 He Was a RecluSe Rockefeller was a recluSe whose rivacy was assured by every means { The publicity genius, the ' ate Ivy Lee, had been retained t hortly before Rockefeller's retire. s lent, and he functioned efficiently s oth to publicize the Rockefeller { hilanthrophies and to protect his | lients. father and son, from in- srviewers and reporters. Tn addi- i lon, there were guards, secretaries, i ervantS, all of whom interposed an t barrier between the e lulti-millionaire and the world T round him.