Abigail Anne "Gibby" Folger (August 11, 1943 – August 9, 1969) was an American coffee heiress, debutante, socialite, volunteer social worker, civil rights devotee and member of the prominent United States Folger family. She was the great-great-granddaughter of J. A. Folger, the founder of Folgers Coffee. She is also known as one of the murder victims of the Manson Family.
Folger was born in San Francisco, California. Her parents were Peter Folger...
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Abigail Anne "Gibby" Folger (August 11, 1943 – August 9, 1969) was an American coffee heiress, debutante, socialite, volunteer social worker, civil rights devotee and member of the prominent United States Folger family. She was the great-great-granddaughter of J. A. Folger, the founder of Folgers Coffee. She is also known as one of the murder victims of the Manson Family.
Folger was born in San Francisco, California. Her parents were Peter Folger, Chairman and President of the Folger Coffee Company, and Ines "Pui" Mejia (June 25, 1907 - July 15, 2007), the youngest child of Gertrude and Encarnacion Mejia, a consul general of El Salvador. Her Roman Catholic parents divorced in 1952 when she was still young, after her mother ended the marriage on the grounds of extreme cruelty. In 1960, her father married again, this time to his 24-year-old private secretary, Beverly Mater.
Growing up in San Francisco, Folger was raised in the closed tradition of San Francisco society. As a young girl...
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