Bache, Alice Odenheimer, 1902-1977
Biography
Alice Sarah Odenheimer de Young Kay Bache Zeckendorf (1902-1977) was collector of Pre-Columbian artifacts and assembled one of the finest and most extensive private collections. In 1967 she donated part of her collection, a large number of Pre-Columbian gold items, to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She was born to Sigmund and Pauline (Freyhan) Odenheimer in New Orleans, Louisiana. He father was the president of Lane Cotton Mills. She married William de Young Kay, a member of the New York Stock Exchange and Society of the War of 1812, and treasurer of the Lane Cotton Mills. He died in 1944. She married Harold L. Bache, president and chairman of the board of Bache and Co., Inc., a New York based investment firm in 1954 in New Orleans, Louisiana. Following Harold Bache's death in 1968, whe was married for a short time to William Zeckendorf, a real estate developer. She has a son, Paul and daugher, Ellen from her first marriage to William de Young Kay. She had homes in Washington, D.C., New Orleans, Connecticut, and Manhattan, New York. She died in New York in 1977 and is buried with her first husband in Metairie Cemetery, New Orleans, Louisiana.