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Tullah Innes Hanley, 66, the city's flamboyant "Merry Widow" who started as an exotic dancer and became an art patron and philanthropist, died Tuesday June 2, in Bradford Regional Hospital where she was taken after having trouble breathing. An outspoken Hungarian-born exotic dancer who touted herself as "one of the 10 best undressed women in the world," she married a millionaire 30 years her senior, then settled down in his home town, scandalizing residents for more than four decades.

She met T. They were introduced by Buffalo artist Tony Sisti, whom Hanley, an art and book collector, had hired to find paintings for him to buy.

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Hanley hired an artist to paint her portrait, beginning a three-year courtship in nightclubs across the country where she danced with her sister, Amy. He said he hated to break up the act, so her sister came to live with them. Hanley's neighbors and relatives never came to terms with the second Mrs. In her first year of marriage, she left Bradford's society matrons aghast by performing an exotic dance for them.

Spurned by city residents, she devoted herself to her husband and his art collection, with periodic trips to New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco and Europe. I even painted a little. I came to love the paintings.

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You can love them as you love a man, each one for individual merit. They were recovered nine days later. A flashy dresser, her trademarks were low-cut, skin-tight outfits topped off with a turban or a feathered hat. Following a regimen of exercise and diet one of her staple foods was sunflower seeds , she maintained her dancer's figure for many years.

She commonly would punctuate her lectures on "The Art of Love and the Love of Art" with cartwheels and leg lifts.