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		</div><p>Anna Kurzweil who never earned more than $20,000 a year as a teacher and then lived on a thousand-dollar-a-month pension while taking care of her ailing mother on her death, left $2 million to the Jesuits. Her will also included $5,000 for each of several nieces and nephews.</p>
<p><span style="font-size:large;"><i> &#8216;</i></span><span style="font-size:large;"><i>“Nobody knew she had that kind of money,”<br />
“I think even the people at the bank were surprised.”&#8217; &#8211;</i> </span><span id="ext-gen182" style="font-size:1.2em;"><span style="font-size:small;">Nephew</span></span></p>
<p><span id="ext-gen182" style="font-size:1.2em;"><span style="font-size:large;"><i>&#8220;Kurzweil &#8216;exemplified the power of planned giving'&#8221; </i></span>&#8211; <span style="font-size:small;">Jesuit Superior</span></span><br />
<b>Anna Kurzweil, who never married and had no children, left relatives puzzled after she left the grand sum in her will &#8211; while only leaving them $5,000 a piece. Kurzweil had devoted much of her life to God and at one time had joined the order of Sisters of Loretto. </b><span style="font-size:x-small;"><i><br />
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<div class="mol-para-with-font"><span style="font-size:small;">A former nun who spent her final years &#8216;living as a maid&#8217; has left a mystery $2 million to a Jesuit society &#8211; despite never earning more than $20,000 a year. Anna Kurzweil, who never married and had no children, left relatives puzzled after she gave the grand sum in her will, while only leaving them $5,000 a piece.</span></div>
<div class="mol-para-with-font"><span style="font-size:small;">While the donation&#8217;s recipient, Society of Jesus, may not come as a surprise &#8211; Kurzweil had devoted much of her life to God, the hefty sum certainly does.Kurzweil&#8217;s relatives told the Kansas City Star that the money must be the result of wise investing and that she was &#8216;sharp and thrifty&#8217; with money. They said she did inherit a small nest egg left after the family’s three farms were sold and divvied up among the children and saved from there.</span></div>
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<div class="mol-para-with-font"><span style="font-size:1.2em;"><img title="Anna Kurzweil (center) at age 14 in a family photograph." src="http://www.kansascity.com/news/local/n2ud3h/picture60024941/ALTERNATES/FREE_960/RNS-KURZWEIL-JESUITS-4" alt="Anna Kurzweil (center) at age 14 in a family photograph." width="640" height="435" /> </span></div>
<div class="mol-para-with-font"><span style="font-size:1.2em;"><span class="caption-text">Anna Kurzweil (center) at age 14 in a family potrait.</span></span></div>
<div class="mol-para-with-font"><span style="font-size:x-small;"><i><span class="caption-text">Photo: </span><span class="photographer">Sally Morrow</span><span class="credits">Religion News Service</span></i></span></div>
<div style="color:black;font:10pt sans-serif;height:1px;overflow:hidden;text-align:left;text-transform:none;width:1px;">Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/news/local/article60024951.html#storylink=cpy</div>
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<div class="mol-para-with-font"><span style="font-size:small;">The youngest of eight children on a farm in the Grandview area of Kansas, after college at Warrensburg, she became a schoolteacher. It was in 1935 that she had her heart broken by a fellow teacher.</span></div>
<p><span style="font-size:small;">“Then,” she wrote in her journal, “I made my commitment to live for God.”</span></p>
<div class="mol-para-with-font"><span style="font-size:small;">After working in a defense plant during World War II, she joined the Sisters of Loretto. But she left the order in 1954 to care for her mother.. After her mother’s death, Kurzweil returned to teaching. She also traveled, and not always for pleasure. She spent six weeks working in a leper colony in New Guinea.<span id="ext-gen182"> Kurzweil died in 2012, </span><span id="ext-gen182"><span id="ext-gen182">aged 100</span>.</span></span></div>
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Retired Kansas teacher ‘who lived like an old maid’ leaves $2 million in her will to Jesuit Society of Jesus
