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Joan Tisch and her husband, Preston Robert Tisch, at a fund-raising event at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 2001.
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Joan Tisch
Died on November 2, 2017 at age 90
Ms. Tisch, the matriarch of the family that owns a 50 percent stake in the New York football Giants, was a hands-on philanthropist whose causes ranged from people with AIDS to the Museum of Modern Art and the 92nd Street Y.
Notable Deaths 2017
Remembering Mary Tyler Moore, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lewis, David Rockefeller, Trisha Brown, Glen Campbell, Dick Gregory, Edith Windsor, Sam Shepard, Tom Petty and many others who died this year.