Wendy Reves

Wendy (born Wynnelle) Russell was a well-known New York City print model when she met Hungarian-born Emery Reves, a writer and newspaper publisher who had worked closely with Winston Churchill during World War II, and later published the wartime memoirs of Churchill, Lord Montgomery and General Dwight D. Eisenhower, among others. After the war, Reves embarked on a career as a collector of fine art and took Wendy along with him. In 1952, they purchased the Villa La Pausa in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin on the Côte d'Azur and furnished it with magnificent works of fine art. Winston Churchill was a constant and honored guest, and it was said that one of the attractions that brought him there was the beauty, charm and Texas wit of Wendy Reves. After Emery Reves' death, his widow occupied herself with good works, including establishing the Wendy and Emery Reves Center for International Studies at the College of William and Mary at Williamsburg, Virginia and endowing (and furnishing) the Wendy and Emery Reves Collection of International Art at the Dallas Museum of Art. She was survived by her son, Arnold L. Schroeder, his wife and their three children.