Maria Hope Ford

Family

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1. Wellesley graduate (NYT 1950 wedding headline; Rick Ford bio: 'His mother is a graduate of Wellesley College').

   WARWICK, N. Y., June 24- Miss Mary Hope Lewis, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Madison H. Lewis of 12 East Seventy-third Street, New York, and Wyndhurst, Warwick, was married here this afternoon to Frank Richards Ford 3d, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ford Jr. 02 Driftway, Southport, Conn., and 530 East Eighty-sixth Street, New York, in the Dutch Reformed Church. ... Miss Joan Sanford Lewis, sister of the bride, and Miss Nancy Ellen Angell were maids of honor. The bridesmaids were the Misses Elizabeth Lewis, another sister of the bride; Cornelia Ford, sister of the bridegroom; ...

2. Named with husband as parents of bridegroom John Charles Cox in NYT 1979 wedding notice (Rock Port, Mo.).

   In the First Presbyterian Church in Greenwich, Conn., yesterday, Emily Van Orden Ford, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Richards Ford 3d of Greenwich, was married to John Charles Cox, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Henry Cox of Rock Port, Mo. ... Lucy Dewitt Jewett was maid of honor for her cousin. Maria Hope Ford, the bride's sister; Claire Frances Cox, the bridegroom's sister; ... were bridesmaids.

3. Mother (maiden Burchell) of F. Richards Ford III; named with husband Frank Richards Ford, Jr. on son's fetched Greenwich Time/Legacy 2021 obituary.

   Dick is survived by his wife Phoebe, his younger sister Susan Hammaker. He is also survived by Mary Hope Lewis, his first wife and their five children: Emily Cox, Madison Ford, F. Richards "Rick" Ford IV, Christopher Ford, Mariah Brown and his eight grandchildren.