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YAKIMA, Wash. -- Maryhill Museum of Art, overlooking the Columbia River south of Goldendale, has received the largest gift in its nearly 70 years of existence.
Museum officials announced Tuesday a bequest of $2 million from the estate of longtime museum supporter Mary Hoyt Stevenson of White Salmon.
Stevenson, a former museum trustee and member of the collections committee, died late last year at the age of 88.
Colleen Schafroth, museum executive director, said Stevenson was one of those people who genuinely cared about people and the museum.
Schafroth said the museum will place $1 million of the gift in the permanent endowment fund and the other $1 million in the Fund for the Future, an account created to expand the museum. Stevenson started the fund with a $1 million gift in 1993.
The endowment fund now contained $2.4 million, she said.
Born in Spokane, Stevenson married Bruce Stevenson and they settled in the Columbia River Gorge and raised their three daughters. The family was involved in forestry, timber production and hospitality.
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