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* John Whitney Payson (1940–2016),<ref>{{Cite web |title=John Whitney Payson Obituary (2016) Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram |url=https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/mainetoday-pressherald/name/john-payson-obituary?id=17321915 |access-date=2022-06-30 |website=Legacy.com}}</ref> who was married to Joanne D'Elia.<ref>{{cite web|title=ORCA – Ocean Research and Conservation Association – Team & Staff|url=http://www.teamorca.org/cfiles/about_payson.cfm|website=www.teamorca.org|access-date=December 1, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161202100928/http://www.teamorca.org/cfiles/about_payson.cfm|archive-date=December 2, 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last1=Span|first1=Paula|last2=Tully|first2=Judd|title=$53.9 MILLION FOR VAN GOGH|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1987/11/12/539-million-for-van-gogh/446b8ac5-4d93-47cb-95ce-434ab7097441/|access-date=December 1, 2016|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|date=November 12, 1987}}</ref>
Joan Whitney Payson died in New York City, aged 72, after the 1975 baseball season. She is buried in the Pine Grove Cemetery, in [[Falmouth, Maine]]. Following her death, her daughter, [[Lorinda de Roulet]], assumed the title of president of the New York Mets.<ref name="nyt-1975-10-05">{{cite news |title=Joan Whitney Payson, 72, Mets Owner, Dies; Head of Greentree Stables Inherited Millions in 20's |first=Joseph |last=Durso |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1975/10/05/archives/joan-whitney-payson-72-mets-owner-dies-head-of-greentree-stables-in.html |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=October 5, 1975 |page=63 |access-date=September 5, 2011}}</ref>
Her heirs sold their stock in the
Besides the Greentree estate in Manhasset, the family lived in an Italian Renaissance-palazzo style mansion in Manhattan later known as the [[Payne Whitney House]]. It was a wedding present from Joan's great uncle, Oliver Payne, her father's namesake, and designed by [[Stanford White]]. Located at 972 Fifth Avenue, it housed not just the family but 13 servants.<ref name=sabr-whitney/>
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