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MILWAUKEE, Jun 21, 2006 (UPI via COMTEX) -- Schoolteacher Marian Breskvar, remembered for her red-tipped cane and hearing aids, surprised many with $1 million in gifts to a Milwaukee college.
The money given over more than a decade was part of an estate she left when she died a month after her 90th birthday in June 2004.
There was no obituary or death notice published at the time at her request.
Stern and frugal, Breskvar, born in Ladysmith, Wis., in 1914, amassed a fortune though shrewd investing while she taught in the Milwaukee Public Schools, retiring in 1977.
In addition to $1 million given to the Milwaukee Area Technical College in West Allis, she established a $440,000 scholarship fund at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and a fund at the West Allis Public Library.
"She was the crabby aunt," her niece Roselynne Caproon told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel newspaper. "She didn't come across as a gentle, easy-going person."
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