Marion BEARDSLEY (1943- )
1 Marion Fay BEARDSLEY1,2,3,4 (1943- ) [13563]. Born 7 May 1943, New York, NY.2 Marr Anthony Emmet FAHNESTOCK 4 Jan 1964, Middleton, NJ.4 Div. Marr Richard ALFORD btw 2003 and 2009.5
From the Washington Post.
August 8, 1963 - "Mr. and Mrs. Randolph H. Beardsley of Red Bank, N.J. announce the engagement of their daughter, Marion Fay, to Anthony Emmet Fahnestock, son of Mr. and Mrs. R. Bertron Fahnestock of Southport, Conn. Miss Beardsley a graduate of the Rumson Country Day School and an alumna of Wheaton College, was presented to society in 1961 at the Rumson Debutante Ball. She is with the White House press office. Her fiance attended Greenvale School and was graduated from Brooks School and Williams College."
From the New York Daily News.
May 15, 3003 - "Says sex with JFK began in June '62
BY CELEST KATZ AND DAVE GOLDINER DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS
JFK's Mimi stepped out of history's shadow's yesterday as new details emerged about the life of the striking woman who kept her White House affair a secret for more than four decades.
Braving a thicket of reporters, Marion (Mimi) Fahnestock, now 60, confirmed to the world how, as a prep school senior, she caught the eye of the world's most powerful man.
"From June 1962 to November 1963, I was involved in a sexual relationship with President Kennedy," Fahnestock said in a short statement. "For the last 41 years, it is a subject I have not discussed,"
Fahnestock's statement indicates the affair with Kennedy continued even after a September 1963 newspaper announcement of her engagement to Anthony Fahnestock, a recent college graduate who was serving in the Army.
The couple married Jan. 5,1964, six weeks after Kennedy's assassination Nov. 22,1963 She wouldn't say when or why the affair ended that ill-fated month - and did her best to bury it for good.
Fahnestock, a grandmother of four, broke her silence after the Daily News tracked her down this week. One of her oldest: friends shrugged off the affair.
"Good for her," said Joan (Bitsy) Tatnall, 59. "She was a young girt, he's a glamorous guy.... I think it was an adventure."
Facing the glare of a New York media frenzy, Fahnestock strode out of her upper East Side apartment building yesterday morning and handed out copies of her remarks before hopping into a taxi.
Visit in 1961
The then-Mimi Beardsley was & stunning prep school senior when she met the handsome President during a White House visit in 1961.
That fall, she went off to Wheaton College in Norton, Mass., as planned.
But things quickly changed when the White House called to offer her a prestigious summer internship in the press office.
Jaws dropped as Fahnestock frolicked with JFK at pool parties. She even flew on Air Force jets to accompany him on overseas trips to resorts and summit meetings.
"Obviously, she had a special relationship with the President," said Barbara Gamarekian, now 77, the White House press aide who mentioned Mima in a 1964 interview released this week.
Mimi seemed infatuated with the charismatic JFK and her new life but found lime to giggle and swap secrets with other attractive young women rumored to be sleeping with him, Gamarekian said.
The furthest thing from her mind was going back to the boredom of college English literature and writing classes, "She loved the summer job, so she didn't want to go back to school," Gamarekian recalled.
It didn't take long for Fahnestock to get another call to meet her lover in the White House.
Weeks after Kennedy stared down the Soviet Union in the Cuban missile crisis, she was flown to Nassau, the Bahamas, in December 1962, where Kennedy was meeting with British Prime Minister Harold MacMillan.
When Kennedy left a few days later aides spotted the intern hiding on the floor of a limousine in his entourage.
The affair stretched through the next, summer, and she was rewarded with a staff job. College would have to wait.
By then, she was dating Anthony Fahnestock, a recent graduate of preppie Williams College who had enlisted in the Army. The couple announced their engagement after Labor Day.
Still, she maintained her special link to JFK.
A couple of days after the President, delivered his speech at the Berlin Wall, Mimi called him directly to complain about being left behind in Washington. A furious Kennedy nearly fired her boss.
It is unknown whether Anthony Fahnestock, an investment banker, knew about his wife and JFK. The couple divorced, and he died of cancer in 1993, His second wife refused to say whether he knew about the affair.
"This story doesn't involve my husband." said Andrea Henderson Fahnestock, a curator at the Museum of the City of New York.".
2 Randolph Henry BEARDSLEY1,6,7,8,9 (1905-1974) [13549]. Born 3 Jan 1905.9,10 Died 1 Mar 1974, Locust, NJ.1,10 Buried Fair View Cemetery, Middleton, NJ.10
3 Elizabeth Corson ELLIS6,7,8,11,12 (1915-1998) [13545]. Born 19 Aug 1915, NJ.11,12 Marr William McEwan ELLIS 1981.13 Died 1 May 1998.12 Buried Fair VIew Cemetery, Middleton, NJ.12
6 John McEwan ELLIS11,14,15,16,17 (1881-1955) [13542]. Born 13 Nov 1881, NJ.11,16 Marr Dorothy Lyles CORSON 7 Jun 1914, Hartford, CT.15 Died 3 Apr 1955, Rumson, NJ.17
7 Dorothy Lyles CORSON6,11,14,15 (1892-1949) [13541]. Born 24 Apr 1892, CT.11 Died 12 Sep 1949, Long Branch, NJ.6 Buried Fairview Cemetery, Middleton, NJ.10
14 William Russell Cone CORSON9,14,18,19,20 (1870-1945) [13526]. Born 18 Feb 1870, New York, NY.9,14,18 Marr Marion Fay LYLES 25 Jun 1891.18,21 Died 2 Oct 1945, Hartford, CT.14,20 Buried Cedar Hill Cewmetery, Hartford, CT.20
15 Marion Fay LYLES9,14,18,21 (1871-1941) [13525]. Born 13 Aug 1871, Brooklyn, NY.9,18,21 Died 2 Jan 1941, Hartford, CT.21
Sources
| 1 | "Obituary of Randolph Henry Beardsley in the New York Times, March 3, 1974". |
| 2 | "Birth announcement of Marion Fay Beardsley in the New York Times, May 11, 1943". |
| 3 | "Engagement announcement of Marion Fay Beardsley and Anthony Emmet Fahnestock in the Washington Post, August 8, 1963". |
| 4 | "Wedding announcement of Marion Fay Beardsley and Anthony Emmet Fahnestock in the New Yoprk Times, January 5, 1964". |
| 5 | "Article in the New York Times about Marion (Mimi) Beardsley Alford, May 22, 2009". |
| 6 | "Obituary of Dorothy Lyles Corson in the New York Times, September 13, 1949". |
| 7 | "Obituary of John Corson Ellis in Alumne Horae, Volume 50, Issue 2, Summer 1970". |
| 8 | "Engagement notice of Elizabeth Corson Ellis to Randolph Henry Beardsley in the New York Times, August 16, 1936". |
| 10 | "Tombstone inscription". |
| 11 | "1930 NJ, Monmouth, Rumson census". |
| 12 | "Tombstone inscription of Elizabeth Corson Ellis". |
| 13 | "Obituary of William McEwan Ellis in the Sarasota Herald-Tribune, Sarasota, FL, December 30, 1997". |
| 14 | "Biography of William Russell Cone Corson in The Mineralogical Record Biographical Archives". |
| 15 | "Social Register, New York 1914 report on marriage of John McEwan and Dorothy L. Corson". |
| 16 | "WWI Selective Service registration card". |
| 17 | "Obituary for John McEwan Ellis in the New York Times, April 4, 1955". |
| 18 | "From Allen, Ethan and Heber on RootsWeb". |
| 19 | "Biography of Henry Everett Lyles from Connecticut Society of Civil Engineers, Memoirs 1933". |
| 20 | "Death notice of William Russell Cone Corson in the New York Times, October 3, 1945". |
| 21 | "Obituary of Marion Fay Lyles Corson in the New York Times, January 3, 1941". |
