CHARLESTON, WV (AP) -- The University of Charleston has received $1 million from a frugal graduate who lived a quiet, unassuming life in Florida.
University officials celebrated the gift from Edgar Loring on Monday. The 83-year-old Loring died on Dec. 9, 2008.
Loring had lived for years in a garage apartment in St. Petersburg, Fla., before he moved to a nursing home in 2003 because of health problems. Loring's longtime landlord, Bonnie Otis, says he was a shy man who didn't own a car and kept his living space bare.
Otis says she occasionally visited Loring at the nursing home. During one visit, he told her he was a millionaire.
Loring received a business degree from the university, then called Morris Harvey College, in 1948.
