Anne Windfohr Marion | |
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Born |
Anne Burnett November 10, 1938 Fort Worth |
Education |
Hockaday School Miss Porter's School Briarcliff Junior College |
Occupation | Rancher, horsebreeder, business executive, philanthropist, art collector |
Political party | Republican |
Spouse(s) | 4, including John L. Marion |
Children | Anne "Windi" Phillips Grimes |
Parent(s) |
James Goodwin Hall Anne Valliant Burnett Tandy |
Relatives |
Robert Windfohr (stepfather and adoptive father) Charles D. Tandy (stepfather) Samuel Burk Burnett (maternal great-grandfather) Thomas Lloyd Burnett(maternal grandfather) David M. Grimes II (son-in-law) |
Anne Windfohr Marion is an American rancher, horse breeder, business executive, philanthropist and art collector from Fort Worth, Texas. She serves as the President of Burnett Ranches and the Chairman of the Burnett Oil Company. She is the founder of the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Anne Burnett grew up in Fort Worth, Texas. Her father, James Goodwin Hall, was a stockbroker. Her mother, Anne Valliant Burnett Tandy, was a rancher, horsebreeder, businesswoman and philanthropist. After her parents got divorced, she was adopted by her mother's third husband, Robert Windfohr, and took his name. When her mother got remarried for the fourth time, her stepfather became Charles D. Tandy, the founder of the Tandy Corporation. Her maternal great-grandfather, Captain Samuel Burk Burnett, was a rancher.
Known as 'Little Anne' informally, she was educated at the Hockaday School in Dallas and Miss Porter's School in Farmington, Connecticut. She graduated from Briarcliff Junior College in Briarcliff Manor, New York. She then attended the University of Texas at Austin in Austin, Texas and the University of Geneva in Switzerland. She was presented as a debutante at The Assembly in Fort Worth. She was elected as Duchess of Texas at the Texas Rose Festival in 1957 and Duchess of Fort Worth to the Court of Courts by the Order of the Alamo in 1959.