She was the author of a series of articles for the old Diplomat magazine in the 1960s entitled "Those Glorious Years." They described Washington society of the 1920s and 1930s. A book of memoirs, "Look Back With Joy," published in the 1960s, told of her friendship with society figures including the Vanderbilts and the Duke and Duchess of Windsor.
Mrs. Fahnestock was a native of Philadelphia and a graduate of Miss Porter's School in Farmington, Conn. She came to Washington in 1937.
She married Somerville Pinkney Tuck, a career foreign service officer, in 1924. She accompanied him to posts in Geneva and Budapest before their divorce in 1934.
Contributed by: John Dowdy
Picture taken c1922
Contributed by: Allie Griffith Nelson
She was the author of a series of articles for the old Diplomat magazine in the 1960s entitled "Those Glorious Years." They described Washington society of the 1920s and 1930s. A book of memoirs, "Look Back With Joy," published in the 1960s, told of her friendship with society figures including the Vanderbilts and the Duke and Duchess of Windsor.
Mrs. Fahnestock was a native of Philadelphia and a graduate of Miss Porter's School in Farmington, Conn. She came to Washington in 1937.
She married Somerville Pinkney Tuck, a career foreign service officer, in 1924. She accompanied him to posts in Geneva and Budapest before their divorce in 1934.
Contributed by: John Dowdy
Picture taken c1922
Contributed by: Allie Griffith Nelson
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