Rockefeller Happy

American socialite and philanthropist, the second wife of the 49th governor of New York and 41st vice president of the United States, Nelson A. Rockefeller (1908–1979) with whom she had two sons. She had four children from her prior marriage to Dr. James Murphy, whom she left in 1963 to marry Nelson. Happy had a double mastectomy in 1974, being declared cancer-free on 18 October 1974, from which she survived in good health, an active advocate of early breast cancer detection. Since her husbands death of a heart attack on 26 January 1979, she served on several corporate boards and was an alternate representative to the UN General Assembly in 1991-1992. Happy Rockefeller died on 19 May 2015 at the age of 88 following a short illness. Link to Wikipedia biography Read less