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Mildred Othmer died in 1998. Her husband, Donald Othmer, a professor of chemical engineering in Brooklyn, died three years earlier. Both were in their nineties. They lived quiet, unpretentious lives -- which is why it came as a shock to their friends to learn that their combined estates were worth $800 million and that they had given nearly everything to charity. How did the Othmers get so rich? Well, in the early 1960s, they each turned $25,000 over to Warren Buffett, an old family friend from their hometown of Omaha, Nebraska…
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