Mary Whelan Warburg was a philanthropist, member of the Warburg banking family, and younger sister to Edwina d"Erlanger, wife of Baron Leo d"Erlanger.
Background
Born in Colorado City, Texas and raised on her father"s sheep ranch near Hope, New Mexico in the last days of the New Mexico Territory and the early days of statehood, Mary Whelan Prue reportedly fired a shotgun at Pancho Villa as he raided the ranch, but missed him.
Career
She was 7 years old. Mary was later an assistant fashion editor at Vogue. An early marriage, to Boston artist Richard Currier, ended in divorce in 1936. Their three children survived them.
During, Mary Warburg worked with the Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs.
Mary Warburg was widowed in 1992. Her elder sister, with whom she had decamped to New York so many years earlier, Edwina (the widow of Baron Leo d"Erlanger), had died in 1994.
Mary Warburg died on March 8, 2009 at age 100 in Norwalk, Connecticut.