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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