Barbara Rockefeller dead at 91

LITTLE ROCK, Ark., May 23 (UPI) -- Barbara Sears Rockefeller, a coal miner's daughter who married Standard Oil heir Winthrop Rockefeller, has died at her home in Little Rock, Ark. She was 91.

The cause of her death was not announced, The Washington Post reported.

Born Jievute Paulekiute in Noblestown, Pa., Barbara "Bobo" Rockefeller was featured as Miss Lithuania at the 1933 Chicago World's Fair. She later was known as Eva Paul when she acted on stage and as Barbara Sears when she appeared on the big screen in films like "Bad Men of the Border" and "Code of the Lawless."

She took the name Sears when she married Richard Sears Jr., scion of a prominent mercantile family, the Post said.

Barbara Sears Rockefeller is, however, best known for her high-profile marriage to and divorce from Rockefeller, a former governor of Arkansas, who died in 1973. She was also the mother of Arkansas Lt. Gov. Winthrop Paul Rockefeller, who died in 2006.

She is survived by eight grandchildren and a great-granddaughter.