Grant, Barbara Winslow, 1928-2019

Karen Alden Sulzberger of Washington, daughter of Arthur Ochs Sulzberger of New York and Barbara Grant Johnson of Topeka, Kan., was married in Stamford, Conn. ... Her mother is a communications specialist for the Topeka public schools.

Sulzberger was married three times. In 1948, he married Barbara Winslow Grant [11](of mostly Scottish and English heritage)[12] in a civil ceremony at her parents' home in Purchase, New York.[13] They had two children: Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr.; and Karen Alden Sulzberger (married to author Eric Lax); before divorcing in 1956.[14][15]

Barbara Winslow Grant, a former charity fund-raiser and leader in school volunteerism who was the wife of one New York Times publisher, the mother of another and the grandmother of a third, died on Saturday in Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif. She was 90. Ms. Grant was born on March 31, 1928, in Paris to Theodore F. Grant, an importer of animal hides, and the former Helen Fisher MacDonald, a secretary...Mr. Grant was a lineal descendant of John Alden, a crew member on the Mayflower. Another Pilgrim ancestor, Edward Winslow, was the author of the 1624 account “Good News From New England: ...The Grant family moved from Paris to Barcelona and then to the United States in 1932...As a young woman, Ms. Grant was a student at the School of American Ballet in New York and went on to dance professionally, appearing at City Center, the Metropolitan Opera and New York City Ballet, among other venues....After they married at her parents’ home in Westchester County, N.Y., she resumed her studies at Barnard and graduated with a bachelor’s degree in fine arts in 1951,...During the 1960s, she worked for the Museum of Modern Art in New York, ... Her two subsequent marriages — to David S. Christy, an economist and adviser to the Afghan resistance during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan, and Jerry Johnson, who worked at the Menninger Foundation in Topeka, Kan. — also ended in divorce. Mr. Christy died in 2015...She moved to California in retirement in 1991 and to Rancho Palos Verdes in 2008...