The two major determinants of her life's course were an incomparable physical beauty and the loss of her husband and greatest love, Bill Chickering of Piedmont, the novelist and TIME war-correspondent who was killed January 9, 1945 in the Philippines. Their prewar life together in Hawaii had been a dream lived at such heights, and their mutual decision for Bill to go back out to the Pacific one last time so characteristic of them both, that their loss was truly tragic. Though she never wholly recovered, she was a woman of great spirit, raising her two sons to behold the world with delight. She married again, to Joshua S. Cosden, Jr., whom she loved and who proved a good stepfather to the boys. As a young woman she modeled for Vogue, even appearing on its cover. When her boys were grown, she turned naturally to humanitarian work, first as an executive of the Midtown International Center in Manhattan, an organization dedicated to helping foreign students in New York, then, in later years, as a volunteer fund-raiser and valued board-member of the Huckleberry Youth Programs in San Francisco. For her work there she was named by President George Herbert Bush as one of this nation's "Thousand Points of Light." Huckleberry Youth Programs also named its annual award for best-staffer after her, "The Audrey." Always good at business, Audrey spent her last decade managing her own investments and building a portfolio that was the envy of professionals. Though she eventually had to give this up due to declining eyesight, she became a first-time grandmother at age 88, and again at age 90. Despite her condition, she captivated her grandchildren, introducing them too to the world of delight, and they brightened the darkness of her final years.