Ha muerto Ruth Lilly

Ruth Lilly, de la familia heredera del fundador de Eli Lilly and Company pharmaceutical ha fallecido.

December 31, 2009, 1:18 pm EST

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- Ruth Lilly, a prolific philanthropist who was the last surviving great-grandchild of pharmaceutical magnate Eli Lilly, has died at age 94.

A family spokesman said Lilly died Wednesday in Indianapolis.

Over the course of her life, the Indianapolis native gave away much of her inheritance from the Eli Lilly & Co. fortune. Court documents showed in 2002 that Lilly had bequeathed nearly $500 million to charitable and arts-related groups.

That included an estimated $100 million to the influential literary magazine "Poetry," which had rejected Lilly's submissions for years. Lilly began writing poetry in the mid-1930's. (Ver...)