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When Richard and Mary Jane Weeks of Fallbrook, Calif., died last November at the age of 90, the San Diego Union-Tribune reports, they left behind legacies so large that it's hard to believe they didn't know each other.
"I've been feeling very odd recently that I did not know Richard or Mary Jane Weeks," their son, Craig Weeks, writes on the Legacy Endowment Community Foundation's website.
"Perhaps they chose to live under theradar, so to speak, because in this age of mass technology with ancestry, genealogy, social media print and online archives, there's simply very little to be found."
The Weekses lived a simple life, Craig Weeks writes, "and I can draw some conclusions about their attention to detail, a desire to live a simple life and to give back to others."
Richard, an engineer, and Mary, a homemaker, started Charitable Remainder Remainder Trusts in 1998 and 2002 to invest some of their assets and name the foundation's trustee as their daughter and son-in-law, respectively.
Craig Weeks writes that after Richard's death, the trust's annual income probably became even more important to Mary Jane, especially when she left our area to be closer to her Read the Entire Article
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