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Martha Firestone Ford is an American businesswoman. She is the owner and chairwoman of the Detroit Lions of the National Football League (NFL). Moreover, Martha is also a member of the board of the Henry Ford Health System.
She is the widow of William C. Ford (d. 2014), a grandson of Ford Motor founder Henry Ford.
Martha Firestone Ford: Age, Parents, Grandparents, Education
Martha Firestone Ford was born on September 16, 1925, in Akron, Ohio. Her current age is 94. Her parents are Harvey S. Firestone, Jr., and Elizabeth Parke Firestone. Also, her grandparents are the founder of Firestone Tire and Rubber Co., Harvey Samuel Firestone and Idabelle Smith Firestone.
Talking about her education, she graduated from Vassar College in 1946.
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Martha Firestone Ford: Detroit Lions
Her husband, William C. Ford was the sole owner of the Detroit Lions since he bought out all other owners in 1963. He bought the NFL outfit for $4.5 million. After the death of her husband, it was announced that she was the owner and would control the Lions. Currently, she is the majority owner of the NFL outfit.
All of her four children have small shares in the team. Similarly, she is one of the ten female owners of NFL teams.
In 2017, Martha joined a group of eight Detroit Lions players who kneeled in the protest during the national anthem.
Martha Firestone Ford: Net Worth($1.4 Billion), House
The estimated net worth of Martha Firestone Ford is $1.4 billion according to Forbes. Her husband, William had an estimated net worth of $1.4 billion. She belongs to the Ford family which is one of the most famous and richest families in the U.S. Her son William Clay Ford, Jr. has an estimated net worth of around $1 billion.
Henry Ford, the grandfather of her husband and the founder of Ford Motor Company had an estimated net worth of $200 billion. She and her husband had a house built on Lake St. Clair and her current residence are in Grosse Pointe Shores since 1960.
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Martha Firestone Ford: Marriage, Husband, Children, Grandchildren
Martha Firestone Ford first met her husband, William Clay Ford at a lunch in New York arranged and attended by both of their mothers. Their marriage was on June 21, 1947, at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Akron, Ohio. By that time both families had an enormous amount of wealth, and their marriage was reported by a number of news outlets.
The Akron Beacon Journal called the Firestone-Ford marriage “the biggest society wedding in Akron’s history” and “the biggest show Akron has seen in years”. The newly married couple received gifts from F.B.I. Director J. Edgar Hoover, John S. Knight, and Mina Miller Edison.
Martha’s husband died in 2014. The couple had four children together, Martha Parke Morse (b. 1948), Sheila Firestone Hamp (b. 1951), William Clay Ford, Jr. (b. 1957), and Elizabeth Ford Kontulis (b. 1961).
Furthermore, she has 14 grandchildren and 2 great-grandchildren.
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