Josephine Clay Ford

[1][4] In 1943, she married Walter Buhl Ford II (1920–1991),[5] not a relative, whose family were prominent in the chemical business in the downriver suburbs of Detroit.

[2] They lived in Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan, and together were the parents of two sons and two daughters:[1][6] Dody and her husband were also art collectors and owned paintings by Vincent van Gogh, Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Pablo Picasso.

[5] Dody died on June 1, 2005, at the Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit.

[14] In 2005, at the time of her death, she owned more than 13 million shares of Ford Motor stocks.

[13] Dody donated Van Gogh's Portrait of the Postman Joseph Roulin, which was valued at $40,000,000, to the Detroit Institute of Arts in 1996.