When a house fire last year killed 88-year-old Helene Whitlock Alley and her husband, a professor emeritus at the U.S. Naval Academy, she was remembered primarily as an unassuming retiree and a devoted wife.
88 year old Helene Whitlock Alley, had been accumulating wealth all her life, and when she died she left a $7.3 million posthumous donation to the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, the largest bequest in the nonprofit organization’s history. She left her surviving son, 1 million and a note to help him understand why she made the donation.
She made the donation in memory her brother who had type-I diabetes, and her father.
Noone knew of her wealth which included Old Merck Stock, untill her will was opened.
The diabetes group is not complaining.
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