Bill Gates Sr. who guided billionaire son’s philanthropy dies at 94
Robert D. McFadden, The New York Times
Posted at Sep 16 02:58 PM
Bill Gates Sr., a lawyer and the father of Microsoft’s co-founder, who stepped in when appeals for charity began to overwhelm his billionaire son and started what became the world’s largest philanthropy, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, died on Monday at his beach home on Hood Canal, in the Seattle area. He was 94.
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