Natalie (Cornell) Rehnquist |
| Posted 2009-11-24 by Pat Wilson |
| Natalie Rehnquist, wife of chief justice, dies. San Diego native Natalie Cornell Rehnquist, the wife of Chief Justice William Rehnquist, died yesterday morning after a long struggle with cancer. She was 62. The Rehnquists had been married since 1953 and had a son and two daughters. Natalie Rehnquist died at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Marylandd. A funeral was Tuesday, Oct. 22, 1991. Natalie Rehnquist, known as "Nan," was remembered by relatives as a dynamic woman who always maintained her own sense of identity, according to her niece, Carol Dillon, a San Jose attorney. "She was, on one hand, a daughter of the '50s who got married and fostered her husband's career," Dillon said yesterday. "But she was a person who got involved and always had her own opinions on things. She lived a very full life." Natalie Rehnquist was born in San Diego on May 26, 1929, and grew up in Hillcrest. She was graduated from Stanford University in 1951. The Rehnquists spent most of their lives in Phoenix and Washington, D.C., where she was director of volunteer services at the National Lutheran Home for the Aged. She also was active in Emmanuel Lutheran Church in Bethesda. She met William Rehnquist at Stanford. They were engaged in Washington when she worked for the Central Intelligence Agency and he was serving as a law clerk for Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson. They were married Aug. 29, 1953 and moved to Phoenix, where William Rehnquist joined one of the town's oldest law firms. They settled into a small tract home on his $300 a month salary. They lived in Phoenix from 1953 to 1969 and moved to Washington when William Rehnquist was appointed assistant attorney general by President Nixon. During the years in Phoenix they often visited San Diego to escape the summer heat in Arizona, Dillon said . Published October 18, 1991, The Arizona Republic. |
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