Janet Rutherfurd, the half-sister of Jacqueline Onassis and Lee Radziwill, has died of cancer at 39.
Mrs. Rutherfurd was the daughter of Hugh Auchincloss and Janet Lee Bouvier, and the wife of international financier Lewis Polk Rutherfurd. She died March 13 in a Boston hospital.
Mrs. Rutherfurd graduated from Miss Porter`s School of Farmington, Conn., in 1963 and studied music history at Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, N.Y., until 1966, when she left school to marry Rutherfurd.
Her wedding in St. Mary`s Church in Newport, where Jacqueline Bouvier married Massachusetts Sen. John F. Kennedy in 1953, attracted an estimated 5,000 people.
After her marriage, Mrs. Rutherfurd moved to Hong Kong. She taught French at the Chinese University from 1966 until 1968.
She was a shareholder and adviser in her husband`s venture capital company, Inter-Asia Management Co. Ltd. of Hong Kong.
In 1979, she was a founder in Hong Kong of the first overseas chapter of the League of Women Voters. In 1984, she was elected president of the Hong Kong chapter and was its honorary president at the time of her death.
Besides her husband, she is survived by two sons, Lewis and Andrew Rutherfurd, and a daughter, Alexandra.
