Person    | Female  Born 24/5/1923  Died 17/3/2015

Marguerite Nabers "Wita" Harbert

Categories: Benefactor, Philanthropy

Countries: USA

Marguerite Nabers Jones was born on 24 May 1923 in Birmingham, Jefferson County, Alabama, USA, the younger child of Raymond McAdoo Jones (1889-1955) and Marguerite Jones née Nabers (1894-1987). Her elder sister was Alice Nabers "Acky" Jones (1920-2010).

On 30 June 1951 she married John Murdoch Harbert III (1921-1995) at St Mary's-in-the-Highlands Episcopal Church, Birmingham, Jefferson County, Alabama, USA and they had two sons and a daughter.

She died, aged 91 years, on 17 March 2015 in Birmingham, Jefferson County, Alabama, USA and is buried in Block 26 in the Elmwood Cemetery, 600 Martin Luther King Jr Drive, Birmingham, AL 35211, USA.

Her Wikipedia page gives much details of this lady.

She is shown as Mrs John Harbert III on both the base of The Vitruvian Man sculpture and on the associated plaque in Belgrave Square, London, SW1.

Credit for this entry to: Andrew Behan.

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