Maria Teresa Thierstein Simões-Ferreira Heinz, known as Teresa Heinz Kerry (born October 5, 1938), is an American philanthropist, widow of the late U.S. Senator H. John Heinz III, and wife of Senator John Kerry.
Maria Teresa Thierstein Simões Ferreira was born to Portuguese parents in Portuguese East Africa, at the time a colony and now the independent nation of Mozambique. Her father was José Simões Ferreira Júnior (1910-1989; born in Albergaria...
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Maria Teresa Thierstein Simões-Ferreira Heinz, known as Teresa Heinz Kerry (born October 5, 1938), is an American philanthropist, widow of the late U.S. Senator H. John Heinz III, and wife of Senator John Kerry.
Maria Teresa Thierstein Simões Ferreira was born to Portuguese parents in Portuguese East Africa, at the time a colony and now the independent nation of Mozambique. Her father was José Simões Ferreira Júnior (1910-1989; born in Albergaria-a-Velha, and died in Porto, Portugal), and her mother was Irene Thierstein (1912-1997), born a Portuguese and British national in Lourenço Marques, daughter of Alberto Thierstein, a British national of Swiss origin from Valletta, Malta (at the time a British-ruled territory), and Maria Burló, born in Alexandria, Egypt, who both migrated to Portuguese East Africa.
Heinz grew up in Portuguese East Africa's capital, Lourenço Marques, later named Maputo. Her father was a doctor, and she led a privileged life. Her father often brought her on...
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