Today’s Surprise Millionaire typifies the very meaning of our saying, “ordinary people, extraordinary wealth”. A woman who inherited a tidy sum but refused to let it change her lifestyle. On the contrary, through saving and frugality that “tidy sum” eventually grew into a wonderful legacy for her community.
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KREM2 NEWS SPOKANE, Wash. – Helen Stowell lived a simple life in West Central Spokane.
“Very simple. She was modest, unassuming. She drove an old Subaru. She gardened, pulled weeds. She walked the neighborhood with her neighbors,” said neighbor Linda Hawkins. “I’ve known her for 20 years. We used to exchange vegetables. She had her tomatoes and I had my squash.”
Stowell’s family first came to the Inland Northwest before the turn of the 20th century. Her grandfather opened a successful drugstore on Sprague Avenue.
Stowell did not know it, but her grandfather’s success would eventually supply her…
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