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Lover of Birds and Opera Leaves Millions to Both

by Pat Coate | November 13, 2009

Mona Webster, a lighthouse keeper’s daughter who lived in Edinburgh and died in August at 96, had a love of birds, and warblers in particular — of the human kind.

English and Scottish newspapers said Ms. Webster had bequeathed the Met $7.5 million ... The Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust received a similar amount.

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