Wheeler has received a $100,000 gift supporting its campaign for a new health center in Bristol, as well as numerous programs benefiting students at Northwest Village School in Plainville.
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Mrs. Doris Nims, formerly of Cheshire, Connecticut, left a significant legacy gift of approximately $1.9 million to Wheeler to advance programs and services that support children and adolescents.
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Innovation and the willingness to embrace and drive change exemplify Peter and Mary Fran Libassi’s value system. As a reflection of their passion, and dedication to supporting Wheeler’s culture of innovation, the Libassi’s made a commitment to bestow a $500,000 legacy gift to Wheeler. Their gift will establish the Libassi Endowment Fund for Innovation as a planned gift through their charitable remainder trust.
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"My mother was an extraordinarily humble person," John Lacey recalls. He remembers going to tea with Governor Trumbull as a boy. The Governor lived just next door and John’s mother Marie and the Governor’s daughter Bertha had become very close friends. Marie, educated at Marymount College and wed to Judge J. Robert Lacey, served as public health nurse in Plainville for many years. She shared a commitment to the well-being of her community with her dear friend, Bertha Trumbull Wheeler. Bertha, and her husband Frank, made a bequest to the community which ultimately helped found Wheeler Clinic. Marie testified to their commitment to community health and well-being in probate court, to ensure her friend’s wishes were honored. When Marie passed away in the autumn of 2002, she left a legacy of her own: both a charitable remainder unitrust and a bequest, made in honor of Bertha Wheeler, to the clinic. Her gifts, totaling more than $75,000, helped support our mission to foster positive change.