Monday 15 April 2013

INQUIRER.net: Rags-to-riches billionaire buried in Poland

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Rags-to-riches billionaire buried in Poland
Apr 15th 2013, 23:46

WARSAW—Polish-born billionaire Barbara Piasecka Johnson, a maid who married into the Johnson & Johnson fortune, was buried Monday in her childhood town of Wroclaw.   Several hundred people attended the funeral of the art collector and philanthropist who died on April 1 at age 76 after a long illness, according to local media.   "Basia—because that's what we called her—was a cheerful, direct, full of life, energetic woman," said her friend Andrzej Szymura.   "But she always said she would emigrate and make some money abroad," he told Poland's TVN24 news channel.   Armed with a degree in art history, Johnson left Poland for the US a...

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