August 7, 2008
$225-Million Bequest Made to Florida Foundation
The Patterson Foundation, in Sarasota, Fla., has received a bequest of $225-million from the estate of Dorothy Clarke Patterson, who died last year. Ms. Patterson established the foundation in 1997 with a donation of $3-million. Ms. Patterson did not specify how the money should be used, nor did she leave any instructions.
Ms. Patterson's husband, James, who died in 1992, was vice president and assistant managing editor at the Daily News, in New York, a newspaper that his
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