Kathleen DuRoss Ford, widow of Henry Ford II, dies at age 80
DETROIT (AP) — Kathleen DuRoss Ford, the widow of former Ford Motor Co. President Henry Ford II, has died at age 80. Her sister, Sharon Amluxen, says DuRoss Ford died Friday at a Pittsburgh hospital after years of bad health, including a double lung transplant. She married the grandson of Henry Ford in 1980 for his third marriage after her first husband died in a car crash. After Ford II’s death in 1987 at age 70, DuRoss Ford was engaged in a public fight over the fate of the estate, then estimated at $350 million. DuRoss Ford had lived in Palm Beach, Florida, home for years.