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Gates died at age 64 on June 10, 1994, at her home in the Laurelhurst neighborhood of Seattle after suffering from breast cancer for several months. [8] Since then, her family has established two endowments in her name at the University of Washington.
Jan 1, 2000 · Email. Share. Tweet. 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 ...
She served more than 18 years on the Board of Regents. In 1993, the First Interstate Bank named Gates to its board of directors. Mary Gates died on June 9, 1994, the day before she was to be honored by the Seattle Municipal League of King County as Citizen of the Year.
Feb 16, 2019 · Mary Maxwell Gates passed away on June 10, 1994, in Seattle, Washington, after losing her battle to breast cancer. After her death, her family established two endowments in her memory at the ‘University of Washington.’ ‘Mary Gates Hall’ in the ‘University of Washington’ is named after her.
Jun 10, 1994 · Jun 10, 1994. Paul Andrews. 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...
Jan 9, 1994 · For Gates, 64, whose credentials in civic and corporate circles were cemented years before her now-famous son built Microsoft into a software megapower, Bill Gates' marriage to Melinda French represented a coming of full circle.
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Sep 1, 1994 · Longtime UW advocate and regent Mary Gates dies. by Jon Marmor | September 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.
