Sharkness biography
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Sharkness biography
Harkness, Rebekah (1915–1982)
American composer, sculptor, dance patron, and philanthropist who founded the Harkness Ballet. Name variations: Betty Harkness. Born Rebekah Semple West on April 17, 1915, in St.
Louis, Missouri; died on June 17, 1982, in New York City, second daughter and one of three children of Allen Tarwater (a stockbroker) and Rebekah Cook (Semple) West; attended Rossman and John Burroughs schools in St. Louis; graduated from Fermata, a finishing school in Aiken, South Carolina, 1932; married Charles Dickson Pierce, on June 10, 1939 (divorced 1946); married William Hale Harkness (an attorney and businessman), on October 1, 1947 (died, August 1954); married Benjamin H.
Kean (a physician), in 1961 (divorced 1965); married Niels Lauersen (a physician), in 1974 (divorced 1977); children: (first marriage) Allen Pierce (b. 1940); Anne Terry Pierce (b. 1944); (second marriage) Edith Harkness.
Once one of the wealthiest women in America, Standard Oil heiress Rebekah