death_place death_date birth_place nationality relatives parents birth_date known_for article_title name occupation
seattle 24 june 2003 seattle , washington american us bullitt senator josiah collins us solicitor general william marshall a. scott bullitt and dorothy bullitt 24 september 1920 philanthropy -lrb- bullitt foundation and others -rrb- patsy bullitt collins
 dorothy priscilla -lrb- `` patsy '' -rrb- bullitt collins chairperson , king broadcasting company
patsy bullitt collins

dorothy priscilla -lrb- `` patsy '' -rrb- bullitt collins was a seattle philanthropist .
born in seattle on september 24 , 1920 to the wealthy a. scott bullitt and dorothy bullitt , during her childhood she lived in a 23-room mansion in the highlands .
she graduated from vassar college in 1942 .
she married josiah collins vi , son of seattle politician josiah collins , in 1947 .
her first husband , larry norman , a usaaf navigator , had been killed over germany or as a pow in 1943 .
she was chairperson of king broadcasting company , founded by her mother , from 1972 until 1992 when it was sold to `` the providence journal '' .
after her parents ' death , she and her sisters donated $ 100 million to the bullitt foundation for environmental causes , bought classical radio station king-fm and donated it to the seattle symphony , seattle opera and what is now artsfund .
she died at her home in first hill , seattle , on june 24 , 2003 .
she bequeathed a final $ 71.5 million to care , the nature conservancy and the trust for public land , among the top 20 largest american charitable donations of the year .
