February 6, 2011
Awaiting $9-Billion, the Cargill Philanthropies Prepare to Grow Big
Margaret A. Cargill, the agribusiness heiress who died in 2006, kept a low profile even as she gave generously during her life, says Cheryl Wilson, a San Diego charity leader: “She was thrilled to come and be incognito at events that were pretty much done to honor her.”
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Margaret A. Cargill, the agribusiness heiress who died in 2006, kept a low profile even as she gave generously during her life, says Cheryl Wilson, a San Diego charity leader: “She was thrilled to come and be incognito at events that were pretty much done to honor her.”
Margaret A. Cargill was a deeply private but fun-loving woman who enjoyed mixing in unnoticed at dedications of new buildings that she had helped make possible through anonymous gifts. At the openings of the National Museum of the American Indian, in Washington, a humane society, and a center for older adults near her home outside San Diego, Ms. Cargill was there mingling—and keeping a secret.
“She was thrilled to come and be incognito at events that were pretty much done
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