Eric Morley, London, England, November 9, 2000. In partnership with his wife, Julia Pritchard, originated the Miss World contest.
Clifford Mallory Jr., Stonington, Conn., December 7, 2000. Started career in Mallory Transport Lines (today Marine Transport Lines); also led Mystic Seaport Museum.
Onofrio Ottomanelli, New York, December 15, 2000. Founded famous Greenwich Village butcher shop O. Ottomanelli & Sons.
Lori Ledis, Brooklyn, N.Y., December 16, 2000. With her husband, owned Ledis-Flam Gallery; started NYC Entertainment, which brought Brazilian performers to the U.S.
Joseph Heitz, California, December 16, 2000. Founder, Heitz Cellars (winemaking).
Myron Minskoff, New York, December 17, 2000. An executive at Sam Minskoff & Sons (property managers).
Randolph A. Hearst, New York, December 18, 2000. Ran his father’s San Francisco Examiner.
Kate Born Schaeffer, New York, December 20, 2000. With her husband, Hanns, founded Schaeffer Galleries (art gallery).
John Cooper, West Sussex, England, December 24, 2000. Creator of the Mini Cooper automobile.
Stanley Blacker, New York, December 24, 2000. Founder of Stanley Blacker Inc. (clothier).
Ralph Bennett Ryder, Coral Gables, Fla., December 28, 2000. Co-founder (with brothers James and Harry), Ryder Trucking Co.
William Donnelly, Potomac, Md., January 2. Publisher (with his stepfather, Melvin Ryder), Army Times Publishing Company.
Chrissie Collins, Turlock, Calif., January 8. Devised MedicAlert bracelet with her husband, Marion.
Kitty Buck, Oceanside, N.Y., January 9. Founder (with her husband, Otto) of Cake Masters Bakery.
Leonard Davis, Palm Beach, Fla., January 15. Founder (with his wife, Sophie) of the Colonial Penn Group (insurance).
Joseph Pellegrino, Hallandale, Fla., January 15. Italian immigrant Pellegrino joined his father-in-law’s pasta company, Roman Macaroni, in 1931. After fire destroyed the factory in 1939, he forged an agreement with Boston’s Prince Macaroni Co. The Pellegrinos eventually took over Prince, and Joseph Pellegrino served as CEO until 1971 when his son, Joseph Jr., took over. The company was sold to Borden in 1987.
Anne Ball, New York, January 19. President, Anne Klein Collection; founded the Ball Group with her husband, Frank, in 1986.
Lloyd Schwan, Kutztown, Pa., January 19. Interior designer; founder (with his wife, Lyn Godley) of Lloyd Schwan Design.
Alfred Koeppel, New York, January 19. Partner, Koeppel & Koeppel (commercial real estate).
Charles Merieux, Lyon, France, January 20. Virologist; vaccine producer in family-owned microbiology lab.
Eugene J. Casey, Guilford, Conn., January 30. Founded marketing designer King Casey Inc. (designed the Merrill Lynch bull).
Nicholas Forstmann, New York, February 2. Founding partner, Forstmann Little & Co. (leveraged-buyout firm).
Gilbert Trigano, Paris, February 3. Developed Club Med into the epitome of the “everything included” holiday. Trigano, son of Jewish immigrants from Algeria, fought with the French Resistance in World War II. Capitalizing on the eagerness of the post-war newly affluent to relax in the sun, he joined with Gerald Blitz, an international Belgian diamond cutter, to create a network of sophisticated vacation camps. Blitz handed over control to Trigano in 1964. Trigano’s son, Serge, took over in 1993.
Myrtle L.E. Hitt, Arlington, Va., February 16. Founder (with her husband, Warren) of Hitt Contracting Inc. (one of the 100 largest U.S. general contractors).
Walter M. Salles, São Paulo, Brazil, February 27. Founder of family-owned Unibanco, Brazil’s fourth-largest private bank.
G.W. Wheelwright III, Tiburon, Calif., March 1. Founder (with brother Joseph) of a boys’ camp; later co-founder of Polaroid.
Chung Ju Yung, Seoul, South Korea, March 12. Founder of the Hyundai Group.
Robert McGarvey, Minneapolis, March 20. Worked at McGarvey Coffee (founded by his father in 1922).
Janice Levin, Palm Beach, Fla., March 23. Real estate developer; took over businesses owned by her deceased husband, Philip.
James J. McManus, Philadelphia, March 26. Owner of Manhattan’s Peter McManus Café.
John Hazen White, Barrington, R.I., March 27. Chairman of Taco Inc. (founded by his father).
Lord Hartwell, London, April 3. Chairman and editor-in-chief of family-owned Daily Telegraph.
John B. Oakes, New York, April 5. Editorial page editor, New York Times, and member of controlling Ochs-Sulzberger family.
Michel Fribourg, New York, April 10. CEO of ContiGroup, family-owned grain company.
Wendell Winship Witter, San Francisco, April 12. Partner, Dean Witter & Co.
Sarah Tomerlin Lee, New York, April 15. Designer, Tom Lee Ltd.
Walter S. Taylor, Hammondsport, N.Y., April 20. Co-founder, Bully Hill Vineyards.
Charles Schreiner III, San Antonio, Texas, April 22. Texas longhorn rancher.
Michael S. Modell, New York, April 28. Co-president, Modell’s Sporting Goods.
Richardson Pratt Jr., Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y., May 1. Former president, Pratt Institute; chairman, Charles Pratt & Co.
Theodore Wilentz, Washington, D.C., May 1. Co-owner (with brother Eli) of New York’s Eighth Street Bookshop.
John B. Johnson, Watertown, N.Y., May 2. Publisher, Johnson Newspaper Corp.
Rufus C. Barkley Jr., Charleston, S.C., May 5. Chairman emeritus, Cameron & Barkley (distributor of industrial supplies).
Jerome Brody, Miami, May 15. New York restaurant operator (Four Seasons, the Rainbow Room, Gallagher’s Steak House, Oyster Bar); ran father-in-law’s coffee business.
B.K. Johnson, San Antonio, Texas, May 19. Owner of King Ranch, Chaparrosa Ranch.
Rachel Coleman Duell, Los Angeles, June 3. Co-founder, Duell Enterprises (designer of Magic Mountain, MGM Theme Park in Las Vegas and Six Flags Over Texas).
Richard H. Grant Jr., Palm Beach, Fla., June 5. Owner, Reynolds & Reynolds (information management).
Stephen Weiss, New York, June 10. Owner (with his wife, Donna Karan) of DKNY fashions.
Harold S. Grossbardt, New York, June 10. Founder, Colony Records.
Jennifer Moyer, Wakefield, R.I., June 10. President, Moyer Bell Ltd. (publisher).
Herbert Woods, New York, June 13. Owner, with his wife, Sylvia (“Queen of Soul Food”), of Sylvia’s Restaurant in Harlem.
Lucille G. Murchison, Dallas, June 26. Former co-owner, Dallas Cowboys.
Carmen Bucher Wirth, Rome, Italy, June 27. Owner, Hassler Hotel in Rome.
Robert L. Crowell, Ponte Vedra, Fla., June 29. President and publisher, Thomas Y. Crowell Co.
Mason G. Hungerford, Alexandria, Va., July 2. Co-founder, Hungerford Printers.
Aveline Kushi, Brookline, Mass., July 3. Founder (with her husband, Michio) of the Kushi Institute of macrobiotics instruction.
Leonard Pines, Fort Lauderdale, Fla., July 4. Owner, Hebrew National (deli meats).
Jack Ubaldi, Queens, N.Y., July 14. Chef and author of Jack Ubaldi’s Meat Book.
Katharine Graham, Boise, Idaho, July 17. Former Washington Post publisher and CEO. After her husband’s suicide in 1963, courageously guided the Post through some of its most heady times, including breaking stories on the Pentagon Papers and the Watergate scandal. She left day-to-day operations to her son, Donald, in a seamless succession in 1991.
Joan Bove, Stamford, Conn., July 21. Her company, Clairol, made hair coloring respectable. She and her husband, Lawrence M. Gelb, a manufacturer of chemical products, sailed to France 1931 in search of a new business, stumbled on a small company called “Mury” that produced a hair-coloring preparation that penetrated hair shafts and washed in like shampoo. They set up offices in New York to market the Clairol brand in the U.S.; hairdressers and consumers turned it into a drugstore staple.
Percy Goring, Bunbury, Australia, July 27. Last surviving British Gallipoli veteran; returned from World War I to enter the family’s millinery business.
Carl Diedrich, Costa Mesa, Calif., July 31. Developed a coffee roaster.
James A.D. Geier, Portland, Maine, August 1. Former chairman and chief executive of plastic company Milacron Inc.
Roy D. Chapin Jr., Nantucket, Mass., August 5. Chief executive and chairman of American Motors; son of Hudson Motor Car family.
Henrietta Milstein, New York, August 17. Helped to found Burlington Coat Factory.
Morris Golde, New York, August 19. Vice president of advertising at MBM Corp. (business machines).
Ida Russ Schwartz, Pembroke Pines, Fla., August 24. Worked at Russ & Daughters, renowned Manhattan appetizer store.
Norman D. Forster, New York, August 30. Owner and president of Léron, a luxury linen shop founded by his parents.
Thomas Dewart, Greenwich, Conn., September 2. President and publisher of the formerly family-owned (now defunct) New York newspaper The Sun.
Roger Starr, Easton, Pa., September 10. Took over Frederick Starr Contracting, his father’s barge company.
Richard B. Ross, New York, September 11. President of the Ross Group and a well-known adviser to family companies; a passenger on hijacked American Airlines Flight 11, which crashed into the World Trade Center.
David Alger, New York, September 11. CEO of mutual funds firm Fred Alger Management Inc.; a World Trade Center crash victim.
Cleo Stater, Newport Beach, Calif., September 12. Founded Stater Bros. supermarket chain.
Samuel Z. Arkoff, Burbank, Calif., September 16. Head and partner (with son Louis) of American International Pictures, which produced low-budget drive-in movies such as I Was a Teenage Werewolf and Wild in the Streets.
Lewis Rudin, New York, September 20. Head of Rudin Management Co., one of New York’s oldest real estate dynasties.
Mary Pagano, Lima, Pa., September 21. Founder and owner (with her husband, Charles) of Original House of Pagano, landmark Philadelphia restaurant.
Henry Ashforth Jr., Stamford, Conn., September 21. Chairman and chief executive of Ashforth Co., major New York commercial real estate developer.
Sallie Wheeler, Keswick, Va., September 21. Anheuser-Bush heiress and lifelong equestrian who led a successful campaign to return the nation’s oldest horse show to Manhattan.
James C. Bradley, Des Plaines, Ill., September 22. Owner of family business A&J Engraving.
Seymour Milstein, New York, October 2. Presided over multibillion-dollar real estate and banking empire.
Frederick DeMatteis, Old Westbury, N.Y., October 16. CEO of family construction firm DeMatteis Organizations; involved in real estate projects at United Nations, LaGuardia Airport and Museum of Modern Art.
Daniel Wildenstein, Paris, October 23. Head of Wildenstein & Company, third-generation family-owned art dynasty.
Bella C. Wexner, New York, November 4. 93-year-old matriarch of The Limited, retail specialty chain.
Andrew McNally III, Chicago, November 15. Fourth-generation chief of mapmaker Rand McNally.
Mary Kay Ash, Dallas, November 22. Founder of Mary Kay Cosmetics.
—William T. O’Hara and Peter B. Mandel
O’Hara is executive director of the Institute for Family Enterprise at Bryant College, Smithfield, R.I. Mandel is an editorial assistant there.