their homes in recent years. Then Dave and Gerrie received a timely

　　—$7,000, a legacy(遗产) from their neighbors Ish and Arlene Hatch, who died in an accident. “It really made a difference when we were meeting difficulty.” says Dave.

　　But the Fusses weren’t the only folks in Alto and the neighboring town of Lowell to

　　unexpected legacy from the Hatches. Dozens of other families were

　　by what the Hatches had done. In some cases, it was a few thousand dollars; in

　　, it was more than $100,000.

　　It

　　nearly everyone that the Hatches had so much money, more than $3 million—they were an elderly couple who lived in an old house on what was left of the family farm.

　　Children of the Great Depression, Ish and Arlene were known for their habit of

　　. They preferred comparison shopping and would go from store to store, checking prices before making a new purchase.

　　Through the years, the Hatches paid for local children to attend summer camps when their parents couldn’t

　　it. “Ish and Arlene never asked if you

　　anything,” says their friend Sandy Van Weelden, “They could see things they could do to make you happier, and they would do them.”

　　Even more extraordinary was that the Hatches

　　their farmland. It was the Hatches’ wish that their legacy—a legacy of kindness as much as one of dollars and cents—should

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