Friday, September 29, 2006

globeandmail.com : Teacher kept her riches secret, then left charity $4.3-million

globeandmail.com : Teacher kept her riches secret, then left charity $4.3-million: "Teacher kept her riches secret, then left charity $4.3-million

MARTIN MITTELSTAEDT

ENVIRONMENT REPORTER

TORONTO -- During most of her long life, Roberta Langtry was an unassuming elementary school teacher in Toronto.

She always shied away from the limelight and spent many years during her career trying to help autistic children with their speaking difficulties. But Miss Langtry, who died last year at the age of 89, carried an unusual financial secret that has been revealed only through her death.

Unknown to almost everyone who knew her, including her closest friends, the modestly paid teacher was really a closet multimillionaire, who through a bequest has given what is believed to be the largest donation from an individual to an environmental cause in Canada."

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