Godfrey A. Rockefeller Godfrey A. Rockefeller Godfrey Anderson Rockefeller, Sr. (May 22, 1924 – January 22, 2010) was an American aviator. He was the eldest son of Godfrey Stillman Rockefeller (1899–1983) and Helen Gratz. He is best known for his environmental interests and role in the World Wildlife Fund. Godfrey Anderson Rockefeller was born on May 22, 1924 in New York City to Godfrey Stillman Rockefeller (1899—1983) and Helen Gratz. He attended Phillips Academy Andover and later Yale University, at the same time as family friend George H. W. Bush, He joined the United States Marine Corps and served in both World War
Rockefeller family The "Rockefeller Archive Center", an independent foundation that was until 2008 a division of Rockefeller University, is a three-level underground archive below the "Martha Baird Rockefeller" "Hillcrest" house on the family estate at Pocantico (see Kykuit). Along forty-foot-long walls of shelves on rails, maintained by ten full-time archivists, is the entire repository of personal and official papers and correspondence of the complete family and its members, along with historical papers of its numerous foundations, as well as other non-family philanthropic institutions. These include: the Commonwealth Fund, "Charles E. Culpeper Foundation", "Lucille P. Markey Charitable Trust", and the "John and Mary