Celeste Bartos

A daughter of D. Samuel Gottesman and the former Jeane Herskovitz, Celeste Ruth Gottesman was born in New York City on Dec. 25, 1913. Her father, a pulp and paper magnate and financier, helped found the Central National Bank in New York. After earning a bachelor’s degree in philosophy and French from Wheaton College in Norton, Mass., in 1935, Celeste Gottesman married Jerome John Altman; the marriage ended in divorce. She married Mr. Bartos, an architect, in 1951. Mr. Bartos died in 2005. Mrs. Bartos is survived by two sons, Jonathan Altman, from her first marriage, and Adam Bartos, from her second; three stepchildren, Armand Bartos Jr., Mary Bartos and Michael Bartos; and two grandchildren. Mrs. Bartos’s sisters died before her, as did a daughter from her first marriage, Jenifer Altman. Besides Manhattan, Mrs. Bartos had homes in East Hampton, on Long Island; Santa Fe, N.M.; and Round Hill, Jamaica.