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Frugal reporter leaves surprise fortune to
By Scott Reeder
SPRINGFIELD — Sometimes you’ll read a news story about someone you thought you knew well and be flabbergasted. That happened to me this month.
John Willard, a reporter I worked with for a decade at the Quad-City Times, died in 2017 at age 74. His wife, Carol, died a couple years later.
Last week, I read that they left a $3 million estate to various charities.
John was a reporter and Carol a secretary.
“I’d be shocked if John ever made more than $35,000 or ...
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