Bill Gates's Father Dies At The Age Of 94
Bill Gates's Father Died At The Age Of 94
Bill Gates Sr., is a lawyer
and father of the Microsoft co-founder, who had a great influence on the
decision to set up the world's largest charity, the Bill and Melinda Gates
Foundation, passed away Monday, September 14 at home in Hood Canal, Seattle, age
94.
The cause of his death was
Alzheimer's disease, according to the family obituary on 15/9.
In 1994, Gates was 69 years
old and planned to retire from his prestigious law practice in a few years when
he went to the movies one autumn night with his son Bill and
daughter-in-law. Standing at the ticket booth, Bill told his father that
there were a lot of people calling for him to charity, but he was too busy
running Microsoft.
At that time, Bill Gate's
father said he could help his son to help with charity work. And the
world's largest charity was born from there.
Over the next 13 years,
Bill Gates and children continued to focus on working at Microsoft, and his
father managed the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation day in and day out,
speaking with executives and philanthropists. , sending his son a list of
proposed grants, writing checks and shaping the charity's primary goal:
improving health and education, and reducing poverty in the US and the third
world.
“I consider Bill Gates Sr. is the Gates family conscience.”
said Pablo Eisenberg, a
columnist for The Chronicle of Philanthropy.
"He's instrumental in not only starting the platform but developing it, and his motive is that with all that money, you have to do good."
Bill Gates
Sr. supported campaigns to eliminate polio, reduce infant mortality, build
schools and help find vaccines to prevent AIDS
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