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For 75 years, Oseola McCarty earned her living washing and ironing other people’s clothes. She lived simply, saved carefully, and in 1995—at age 87—gave $150,000, most of her life savings, to help students attend the University of Southern Mississippi.

Oseola McCarty’s $150,000 Gift Grew Into a $1 Million Legacy Oseola McCarty spent most of her life doing hard, ordinary work. For about 75 years, the Hattiesburg, Mississippi woman washed and ironed other people’s…
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The House She Trusted Me to Keep

My grandmother, Evelyn Rose Bennett, believed handmade things carried part of the person who created them. At her lake house, cast-iron pans hung by size on hooks she installed in 1974, spices remained in…
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