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COPYRIGHT 2005 The Dallas Morning News
Byline: Robert Miller
Aug. 21--GIFT WILL HELP TRAIN PEDIATRIC PHYSICIANS: The late Mary Celestia Fisher seemed on the surface to be a mass of contradictions.
The only child of Collin County farmers, she earned bachelor's and master's degrees from first-class universities, Texas Woman's University and the University of Michigan.
And despite her rural beginnings, she became a highly successful businesswoman in 1955 and was the only woman in the Southwest who owned a consulting actuarial practice.
A student of the piano and a patron of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra and the Dallas Opera, Ms. Fisher was also a fan of the Dallas Cowboys and Texas Rangers.
She was single and childless, yet she left $8.5 million to Children's Medical Center Dallas when...
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