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- Birth nameKathleen Lanier Harriman
- Kathleen Harriman Mortimer was born on December 7, 1917 in the USA. She was married to Stanley Grafton Mortimer II. She died on February 17, 2011 in Arden, New York, USA.
- SpouseStanley Grafton Mortimer II(1947 - 1999) (his death, 3 children)
- She was an active skier, equestrienne, and outdoors woman. She lived in Arden House in Arden, New York and had a home on the Upper East Side in New York City.
- In 1944, she represented her father with other foreign correspondents into the Katyn forest in Western Russia. The forest site was the location of Katyn Massacre where thousands of Polish officers were killed earlier in the war. The Soviet disinformation blamed the massacre on Nazi Germany for decades until the Russian finally admitted it's guilt in the Katyn Massacre.
- She graduated with a Bachelor's degree from Bennington College in Bennington, Vermont in 1940. She went to London, England in 1941 where her father, W. Averell Harriman was United States Ambassador to Great Britain in London, England during World War II. In 1943, she went with her father to Moscow, Soviet Union and traveled with her father to the Yalta Conference in 1945.
- She is survived by sons, David Mortimer, Jay Mortimer, and Averell Mortimer; two stepchildren Stanley Grafton Mortimer III and Amanda Mortimer Burdern; 10 grandchildren, and 7 great-grandchildren.
- Younger daughter of W. Averell Harriman and first wife, Kitty Lanier Lawrence. Paternal grandfather was E.H. Harriman. Stepdaughter and former room-mate of Pamela Digby Churchill Harriman.
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