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Mary Ann Gates (née Maxwell; July 5, 1929 – June 10, 1994) was an American banker, civic activist, non-profit executive, and schoolteacher.
Jan 1, 2005 · Mary Maxwell Gates (1929-1994) Mary Gates grew up in Seattle's North End and graduated from Roosevelt High School where she was class valedictorian and a star forward on the girls' high school basketball team. She received a degree in education from the University of Washington 1950.
Feb 16, 2019 · Mary Maxwell Gates was an American businesswoman and the mother of Microsoft founder, Bill Gates. She was associated with philanthropy and rendered voluntary service. Having worked as a school teacher in the early 1950s, Mary strived towards addressing students’ concerns.
Aug 5, 2020 · According to Gates, part of his success is due to his parents – in fact, his late mother, Mary Gates, was said to be instrumental in a deal that helped propel Microsoft into the big leagues....
Mary Maxwell Gates. Portrait that hangs in Mary Gates Hall, painted by Margaret “Meg” Holland Sargent. Mary Maxwell Gates (1929–1994) was a leader who promoted voluntary service and philanthropy both locally and nationally.
Sep 1, 1994 · The University of Washington lost one of its closest friends and biggest supporters when Mary Maxwell Gates, ’50, a civic leader and longtime UW regent, died June 10 of cancer.
Jan 1, 2000 · On June 10, 1994, Mary Maxwell Gates, mother of Microsoft co-founder William H. Gates III and a woman widely admired for her civic activism, dies of breast cancer at age 64. Gates was the first female president of King County's United Way, the first woman to chair the national United Way's executive committee, and the first woman to ...
Mary Gates, a member of the UW Board of Regents for eighteen years (1975-1993), was a leader who promoted voluntary service and philanthropy, both locally and nationally.
Jun 10, 1994 · Mary Gates, one of Seattle's most prominent civic figures and the mother of Microsoft magnate Bill Gates, died at her Laurelhurst home early this morning after a months-long bout with...
Sep 15, 2020 · In 1951 he married Mary Maxwell, a Seattle civic leader and longtime regent of the University of Washington. Besides Bill, they had two children, Kristianne and Libby. Mary Gates died in 1994.
