She was born on 7 August 1866 in
Dundee, Scotland, as Anna Thompson. Her obituary in
The New York Times lists her age as 103. Her parents were William Thompson and Elizabeth Stevens. In 1896, she married
Horace Elgin Dodge Sr., of
Dodge Brothers Company. The couple had a son,
Horace Elgin Dodge Jr., and a daughter, Delphine Dodge. After her husband died (only 11 months after his brother and Dodge-cofounder
John Francis Dodge), she became a substantial owner of the Dodge company. She and John's widow
Matilda sold the company in 1926 for US$146 million (equivalent to $ billion in ) to
Dillon, Read & Co., which was the largest cash transaction in history at the time. On 8 May 1926, she married actor
Hugh Dillman, who had previously been married to
Marjorie Rambeau. She divorced Dillman in 1947. Her English home was St Leonard's at
Clewer, near
Windsor, in
Berkshire. She gave the City of Detroit $1,000,000 towards the construction of a fountain in memory of her late husband and son. The
Horace E. Dodge and Son Memorial Fountain was designed by
Isamu Noguchi in 1978, and it is located near the center of
Philip A. Hart Plaza. She died on 2 June 1970 at her home having outlived both of her children,
Rose Terrace, in
Grosse Pointe Farms,
Michigan, at the age of 103. She had been a wheelchair user for the previous seven years. ==References==