Posted on Tue, Oct. 28, 2003


STROM’S WILL



Specific bequests in the will of J. Strom Thurmond, filed Monday in Aiken County Probate Court:

Family

Nancy Moore Thurmond

•  Widow

•  Home: Aiken

•  Bequest: all personal and household items at Thurmond’s home in Aiken, a Ford station wagon, $5,000 cash; all of Thurmond’s U.S. Senate, Army, state and Social Security retirement benefits; also forgives “any and all indebtedness (she) may owe me as of the date of my death”

Paul Thurmond

•  Youngest son

•  Home: Charleston

•  Bequest: all personal and household items at Thurmond’s Alexandria, Va., condominium, with the exception of clothing, which he will share with his older brother

Strom Thurmond Jr.

•  Oldest son

•  Home: Aiken

•  Bequest: Half of his father’s clothes

Julie Thurmond Whitmer

•  Only surviving daughter

•  Home: Washington, D.C.

•  Bequest: $50,000 cash

Thurmond’s three surviving children also would split anything not specifically covered in the will. His oldest child, Nancy Moore Thurmond, died in 1993.

Martha Bishop

•  Sister

•  Home: Greenwood

•  Bequest: $5,000 cash

Mary Thurmond Tompkins

•  Sister

•  Home: Edgefield

•  Bequest: $5,000 cash

Thad Strom

•  Cousin

•  Home: Arlington, Va.

•  Bequest: $4,000 cash

U.S. Senate staff

Harry Dent

•  Chief of staff, 1957-69

•  Home: West Columbia

•  Bequest: $3,000 cash

Warren Abernathy

•  Longtime state director

•  Home: Spartanburg

•  Bequest: $4,000 cash

Duke Short

•  Chief of staff, 1989-2003

•  Home: Arlington, Va.

•  Bequest: $4,000 cash

James Graham

•  Former driver

•  Home: Hyattsville, Md.

•  Bequest: $2,000 cash

Kathryn Hook

•  Longtime receptionist

• Home: Florence

•  Bequest: $1,000 cash

Sara H. Fox

•  Former staffer

•  Home: Batesburg (Batesburg-Leesville)

•  Bequest: $500 cash

Sandra Courie

•  Former personal secretary

•  Home: Columbia

•  Bequest: $500 cash

Emmett Richardson

•  Son of former longtime personal secretary Holly Richardson, who died last year

•  Home: Alexandria, Va.

•  Bequest: $2,000 cash

Anne Richardson

•  Daughter of former longtime personal secretary Holly Richardson, who died last year

•  Home: Alexandria, Va.

•  Bequest: $2,000 cash

Institutions

Strom Thurmond Institute

•  Clemson University

•  Location: Clemson

•  Bequest: Thurmond’s public correspondence and other government papers; any gifts — silver trays, keys, awards, etc. — given to Thurmond by universities, schools, foreign dignitaries and others

Strom Thurmond High School

•  Location: Edgefield

•  Bequest: All books owned by Thurmond at the time of his death

First Baptist Church

•  Location: Edgefield

•  Bequest: $250 cash

First Baptist Church

•  Location: Aiken

•  Bequest: $250 cash





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