Frank Luella Mrs. Bennack

Luella and Frank divided their time between their San Antonio residence and their Hill Country ranch.

Luella, a philanthropist for numerous national charitable causes including United Cerebral Palsy, enjoyed a varied busines and pro bono career that spanned more than 30 years.

She was educated in San Antonio public schools and attended Fordham University in New York City.

Luella's early work experience was at Joske's in San Antonio and with Sears Roebuck.

During her husband's tour of duty with the U.S. Army in Germany, she was employed with an intelligence agency in Stuttgart.

After raising five daughters, she returned to retailing in the 1980's as the owner of her own store, Kropotkin, in New Canaan, Connecticut. She retired in 1992.

Her husband of 51 years is vice chairman and longtime CEO of The Hearst Corporation.

She was preceded in death by her son, Arthur Jeffrey Bennack, who died at birth in 1956. Survivors: husband, Frank A. Bennack of San Antonio and New York City; daughters Shelley Bennack McCullough and her husband, Robert, Dr. Laura Bennack and her husband, Ron Peterson, Diane Bennack Sacchetti and her husband John all of San Antonio, Cynthia Hinson and her husband, Eric, Monroe, NC, Julie Bennack, New York City; grandchildren, Brian and Lacey Wulfe, Justin and Jennifer Peterson, Danielle, Nathan, Adam and Mae Hinson, Benjamin Sacchetti, and Connally and Beverly McCullough; sister, Annabelle Leyendecker and her husband, Victor; brother, Gary Smith and his wife, Joanie, all of San Antonio; sister, Linda Smith, Dallas, TX; numerous nieces and nephews