Milestones, Jan. 15, 1979

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MARRIED. Nancy Lopez, 22, champion pro golfer who in her rookie season last year became her sport's top woman moneymaker with nearly $200,000 in earnings; and Timothy Melton, 29, a sportscaster from Harrisburg, Pa.; both for the first time; in Medford Lakes, NJ.

MARRIED. Sylvia Field Porter, 65, syndicated financial columnist and author; and James F. Fox, 61, New York City-based public relations executive; she for the third time, he for the first; in Manhattan. Porter, whose daily column appears in over 400 papers worldwide, once earned a compliment from a White House reader. "Why, goddammit," Lyndon Johnson thundered, "can't these economists talk straight like Sylvia?"

MARRIAGE REVEALED. Bernardo Bertolucci, 38, Italian film director (Last Tango in Paris, 1900); and Clare Peploe, 31, his English assistant and onetime companion of Film Director Michelangelo Antonioni; both for the first time; on Dec. 16, in Rome.

DIED. Olga Deterding, 52, Swiss heiress (Royal Dutch/Shell Oil Co.), who frequently forsook affluent society to work for Dr. Albert Schweitzer in West Africa; after choking on a piece of meat at a New Year's Eve party; in London. Deterding first joined Schweitzer's hospital in 1956, while on an African safari. Assigned such chores as floor scrubbing and potato peeling, she stayed for a year, returning at irregular intervals until Schweitzer's death in 1965. "There are times when I like to suffer," said the peripatetic millionaire. "Having so much money makes it necessary to cleanse oneself."

DIED. Boleslaw Piasecki, 63, Polish Communist official and chairman of the progovernment Roman Catholic organization called PAX; of a thrombotic ailment, Buerger's disease; in Warsaw. Jailed by the Soviets in 1944, he reportedly bartered for his freedom by agreeing to establish an association of "patriotic" Catholics. Founded in 1945, PAX was scorned by many Polish Catholics (including the present Pope) as a tool of the regime designed to split the church. Its influence began to wane in the early 1960s as Warsaw and Rome started seeking an accommodation. In 1971, Piasecki was appointed a member of the 16-man Council of State.

DIED. Conrad N. Hilton, 91, financial wizard who parlayed a small Texas hotel into an international chain of 261 hostelries; of pneumonia; in Santa Monica, Calif, (see ECONOMY & BUSINESS).

DIED. Julia Rush Biddle Henry, 92, diminutive grande dame of Philadelphia society, whose daily jogs throughout her 80s helped keep her weight at 88 Ibs. and her name on the world's best-dressed lists; in Chestnut Hill, Pa,