Oil heiress Caroline Rose Hunt, daughter of wildcatter H.L. Hunt and once the richest woman in America, died Tuesday after an Oct. 31 stroke, reported The Dallas Morning News business columnist Cheryl Hall.
“The philanthropist, hotelier, author, world traveler, gourmet, entrepreneur, mother of five, grandmother of 19 and great-grandmother of 23 was 95,” Hall wrote.
She also graduated from Hockaday.
Other publications added details about her life, including Candy’s Dirt and CultureMap.
But perhaps the most poignant comments about Hunt came from former Dallas Morning News society columnist Alan Peppard on Facebook:
“Tabloids used to call me for scoop about the children of H.L. Hunt, once America’s richest man,” he wrote. “They never grasped that Margaret, Hassie, Bunker, Caroline, Herbert and Lamar were incredibly nice, incredibly normal people. After Caroline lost her sons Bunker and David to cancer, she and I talked about death. She was at peace. Now at 95, she’s gone. It was an incredible ride. As her cousin Tom Hunt said on his deathbed, ‘I’ll see you on the other side.’ ”
