Lizanne LeVine, a Philadelphia Kelly

NOTE: THIS STORY HAS BEEN CORRECTED

AN ERA closed quietly on Tuesday. The last of the children of the legendary sportsman and political figure John B. Kelly has died.

Elizabeth "Lizanne" Kelly LeVine may not have been as flamboyant or as famous as other members of Philadelphia's fabulous Kelly family, but she kept the torch burning and made her own mark in charitable causes.

The Kelly family had an impact on the city as few others have - from the patriarch, John B. Kelly Sr., champion rower, millionaire contractor and Democratic Party power; to his son, John B. Jr., also a champion rower and city councilman; to the beautiful Grace, Academy Award-winning actress and later a storybook princess. All four children of the original John B. Kelly are now deceased.

Lizanne LeVine, long active with the Women's Auxiliary of the Medical College of Pennsylvania - of which she was past president - and other charities, was 76 when she died of cancer Tuesday at the Quadrangle, a retirement home in Haverford. She previously lived at the longtime Kelly beachfront home in Ocean City, N.J., and in Gladwyne.

She inherited her family's athletic prowess, starring in hockey and basketball at Ravenhill Academy in East Falls, where she also was president of the student council.

At the University of Pennsylvania, she captained the hockey team, and in 1955 appeared in Sports Illustrated, photographed in her hockey garb - one of the first women athletes to be featured by the magazine.

After graduating with a bachelor's degree, Lizanne married Donald C. LeVine, a thoroughbred trainer who later became a prestigious racing official. She spent much of their married life following him around the country as he pursued his work.

She took to the itinerant life with good grace, especially since she enjoyed horse racing. Her husband died in 2000 at age 72.

The LeVines had two children. Their daughter, Grace, named after her sister, was born shortly after Grace married Prince Rainier III of Monaco in 1956. Their son, Chris, is an investment adviser.

Her daughter died of cancer in 1999 at 43. An annual award to young people in the arts, given by the Princess Grace Foundation, is named the Grace LeVine Award.

Lizanne cheered on the accomplishments of her actress sister, Grace, and got to experience the Hollywood scene herself in the mid-'50s when she accompanied Grace around movie sets. She got to meet a number of film celebrities, including Alfred Hitchcock, who directed Grace in the 1955 movie "To Catch a Thief."

She also was with her sister when Grace was honored for her films at Penn's Annenberg Center in April 1982, just five months before Grace's death.

Princess Grace died Sept. 14, 1982, when she suffered a stroke while driving in Monte Carlo. She was 63. She had won an Academy Award for best actress in 1954 for her performance in "The Country Girl," with Bing Crosby.

Lizanne's other sister, Margaret Conlan, who also was active with Women's Medical College and other charities, died in November 1991 at 65.

John B. Kelly, the family patriarch, won three gold medals in the 1920 Olympics, founded a brickwork company and led the city Democratic Party in the years when the city was dominated by the Republican machine. He died in 1960 at 70. His wife, Margaret, died in 1990 at 91.

His son, John B. Kelly Jr., a four-time Olympic rower, businessman and city councilman-at-large, collapsed and died in 1985 while jogging. He was 57.

The Kelly family legacy might be said to have started with John B.'s brother, George Kelly, a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright who helped his niece get started in show business.

Another brother was Walter Kelly, a popular comedian of the '20s.

Besides her son, Lizanne is survived by three grandchildren.

Services: Funeral Mass noon Saturday at St. Bridget's Church, 3667 Midvale Ave. Friends may call at 10:30 a.m.

CORRECTION: The Funeral Mass will be held on Saturday, not Friday as originally reported.