Washington State: John Jacobs and Statement Gordon

washington state: Eva had a tremendous heart and liked to throw a rope to help people climb, John Jacobs, her godson and a representative for her estate, said in a statement, according to The Guardian. Gordon left nearly 10 million to community and technical colleges in western Washington state when she died in June 2018 at age 105. But her fortune, amassed over decades of investing what little money she could scrape from her paychecks, will enable students at 17 community colleges to fulfill the dream that she had to forgo. Each college's foundation will receive roughly 550,000 to help students pay for housing, transportation, books and other needs in a state where many community college students also have jobs and family grew up on an orchard and graduated high school at the top of her class, according to Jacobs's statement. With each paycheck, Jacobs told the Seattle Times, his godmother bought partial shares in oil companies, Seattle utility companies and other businesses. She then worked as a legal secretary and as a trading assistant for a Seattle investment firm. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.