Personal Life
Daughter of Lewis Fox Frissell and Antoinette Wood Montgomery, Granddaughter of Algernon Sydney Frissell; founder and president of the Fifth Avenue Bank of New York, Great-Granddaughter of Mary Whitney Phelps and Governor of Missouri; John S. Phelps. Descendant (GG Granddaughter) of Elisha Phelps: US Representative from Connecticut (1819–21, 1825–29). Descendant (GGG Granddaughter) of Maj. Gen. Noah Phelps: Revolutionary War hero. Sister of Phelps Montgomery Frissell and Filmmaker Lewis Varick Frissell who was killed in Newfoundland during the filming of “The Viking” in 1931.
Toni Frissell died of Alzheimer's disease on April 17, 1988, in a Long Island nursing home. Her husband, Francis M. Bacon 3rd, of Bacon, Stevenson & Company, predeceased her. She is survived by a daughter, Sidney Bacon Stafford; a son, Varick Bacon; grandchildren Montgomery Bacon Brookfield, Susan Brent Loyer, and Alexandra Bacon; and great-grandchildren Montgomery Bacon Brookfield, Jr., Samuel Huntington Brookfield, Holly Brent Brookfield, Gregory Vanderbilt Brookfield, Cadence Frissell Brookfield, Laura Loyer, Varick Loyer, and Margot Loyer.
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