Anne Windfohr Marion

Anne Windfohr Marion
Born Anne Burnett
Education Hockaday School
Miss Porter's School
Briarcliff Junior College
Occupation Rancher, horsebreeder, business executive, philanthropist, art collector
Religion Episcopalian
Spouse(s) 4, including John L. Marion
Children Wendi 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.

Early life

Anne Burnett grew up in Fort Worth, Texas.[1][2] Her father, James Goodwin Hall, was a stockbroker.[3][4] Her mother, Anne Valliant Burnett Tandy, was a rancher, horsebreeder, businesswoman and philanthropist.[2][3][4] After her parents got divorced, she was adopted by her mother's third husband, Robert Windfohr, and took his name.[4] When her mother got remarried for the fourth time, her stepfather became Charles D. Tandy, the founder of the Tandy Corporation.[3] Her maternal great-grandfather, Captain Samuel Burk Burnett, was a rancher.[5]

Known as 'Little Anne' informally, she was educated at the Hockaday School in Dallas and Miss Porter's School in Farmington, Connecticut.[3][6] She graduated from Briarcliff Junior College in Briarcliff Manor, New York.[3][4] She then attended the University of Texas at Austin in Austin, Texas and the University of Geneva in Switzerland.[6] She was presented as a debutante at The Assembly in Fort Worth.[6][7][8] 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.[6]

Career

She inherited four ranches spanning 275,000 acres in West Texas, and serves as the President of the entity known as Burnett Ranches.[2][5][9] It includes the historic 6666 Ranch.[2][5] She purchased Dash For Cash, Special Effort and Streakin Six, all award-winning horses.[2] She also keeps 160 broodmares.[2] She was inducted into the American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame in 2007.[2]

In 1980, she established the Burnett Oil Company, headquartered at the Burnett Plaza in Fort Worth, Texas.[1][4][10] The company operates in several states.[11] It is a member of the Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce.[12] She serves as the Chairman of the Board.[3][4]

In 2006, she was worth US$1.3 billion.[1] She was on the Forbes 400 list until 2009, when she was worth US$1.1 billion.[9][13]

Philanthropy

She serves as President and Trustee of the Anne Burnett and Charles D. Tandy Foundation.[3][4] It later became known as the Burnett Foundation. With a gift of US$10 million from the foundation, she founded the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe, New Mexico.[2][14] In 2013, she donated the main donation for a US$57-million new emergency center at the Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital in Fort Worth.[15] It is named the Marion Emergency Care Center.[15]

She has served on the Boards of Trustees of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City as well as the Kimbell Art Museum and the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth.[2][4] She helped move the National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame from Hereford to Fort Worth.[16] Meanwhile, she selected members of the Board of Trustees alongside business executive Ed Bass.[16] She was inducted into its Hall of Fame in 2005.[17]

She has served on the Board of Regents of Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas.[2][4] She has endowed a professorship at the Ranching Management School of Texas Christian University (TCU) in Fort Worth.[4] She also paid for the renovation and new elevator of the Chancellor's box of the Amon Carter Stadium at TCU, where the Chancellor conducts fundraising events for the university.[4] She is the recipient of the Charles Goodnight Award from TCU.[4] Moreover, in 2001, she received the National Golden Spur Award from the National Ranching Heritage Center at Texas Tech University.[18][19]

In 2012, she was a donor to Mitt Romney's presidential campaign.[20]

Personal life

She has been divorced three times.[1] In 1961, she was engaged to William Wade Meeker, the son of Mrs and Mr Julian R. Meeker.[6] She married her fourth husband, John L. Marion, at the Church of the Heavenly Rest on the Upper East Side in Manhattan, New York City, in 1988.[3][4] The ceremony was performed by Reverend C. Hugh Hildesley.[3]

Her daughter, Wendi Grimes, is married to David M. Grimes II.[1][21] She resides in Fort Worth, Texas, and owns secondary residences in Santa Fe, New Mexico, Palm Springs, California and Jackson Hole, Wyoming.[4][13] She enjoys quail hunting on her 6666 Ranch.[4] She was married to B.F. Phillips, a legendary horseman, and they created a legacy in the horse world with Dash For Cash, Streakin Six and many others.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Forbes 2006
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame & Museum: Anne Windfohr Marion Archived November 11, 2014, at the Wayback Machine.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Anne Windfohr Wed to John L. Marion, The New York Times, March 27, 1988
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Mary Rogers, Dancing Naked: Memorable Encounters with Unforgettable Texans, College Station, Texas: Texas A&M University Press, 2008
  5. 1 2 3 6666 Ranch: A Family Legacy of Cattle, Horses and Oil
  6. 1 2 3 4 5 They're Engaged!, San Antonio Express-News, April 16, 1961
  7. ↑ , San Antonio Express-News, June 5, 1959
  8. ↑ Lawrence R. Samuel, Rich: The Rise and Fall of American Wealth Culture, AMACOM, 2009, pp. 118-119
  9. 1 2 Peter J. Reilly, Ranch Heiress Shows IRS She Is Real Cowgirl, Forbes, May 27, 2014
  10. ↑ Burnett Oil Company: About Burnett Oil Co., Inc.
  11. ↑ Burnett Oil Company: Areas of Activity
  12. ↑ Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce: Burnett Oil Company
  13. 1 2 Forbes 2009
  14. ↑ Kathryn Jones, The Money of Color, Texas Monthly, September 1999
  15. 1 2 Betty Dillard, New emergency care center honors Fort Worth philanthropist Anne Marion , Fort Worth Business Press, June 4, 2013
  16. 1 2 Charles Moncrief, Wildcatters: The True Story of How Conspiracy, Greed, and the IRS Almost Destroyed a Legendary Texas Oil Family, New York City: Regnery Publishing, 2013, chapter 4
  17. ↑ National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame: Anne W. Marion Archived November 12, 2014, at the Wayback Machine.
  18. ↑ National Ranching Heritage Center: National Golden Spur Award
  19. ↑ John Davis, 6666 Ranch owner recipient of National Golden Spur Award, Lubbock Avalanche-Journal, September 16, 2001
  20. ↑ Anna M.Tinsley, Texas donors pour $61 million into election, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, November 4, 2012
  21. ↑ Matt Potter, Lone star big oil rover, San Diego Reader, October 23, 2013
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