... was born in New York City on Dec. 11, 1927, the daughter of Raymond Clifford Ball and Margaret Morris Ball of Bronxville, N.Y. Both Barbara and her childhood sweetheart, Thomas Ellis Rivers Jr., grew up in Bronxville. Her post-secondary education ...
... graduated from the University of Richmond. She is a daughter of Andrea D. O'Halloran and F. Thomas O'Halloran of Bronxville, N.Y. Her father is a portfolio manager and partner in Lord, Abbett & Company, a partner-owned investment management firm in ...
... married life as a fall from an idyllic youth into catastrophe. She says she grew up in the New York suburb of Bronxville, "a very pretty, lovely place. And everybody was just like me. We wore Villager clothes. And I went to Catholic, all-girls ...