Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI) - September 11, 2001
Deceased Name: MILWAUKEE BENEFACTOR PETTIT DIES JANE PETTIT DONATED MORE THAN $250 MILLION TO THE CITY IN THE LAST 16 YEARS.
The city lost its most generous philanthropist in history with the passing of Jane Pettit, who died after a yearlong battle with lung cancer. She donated more than $250 million in the last 16 years in support of sports, arts, education and social services.
"I think her legacy of philanthropy is one that is not going to be matched for a long, long time to come," said Christopher Goldsmith, executive director of the Milwaukee Art Museum. Pettit recently donated $13 million to the museum's $100 million Calatrava expansion.
She died Sunday evening at her River Hills home. She was 82.
John Gurda, Milwaukee historian and author of "The Making of Milwaukee," said no one in the city's history has come close to matching Pettit's donations to the community.
Pettit donated more than $250 million to the community personally and through the Jane Bradley Pettit Foundation. Pettit donated the money the museum used to buy paintings by Wisconsin painter Georgia O'Keeffe, Goldsmith said, a collection he described as one of the most significant acquisitions of the 1990s.
Worth Magazine, which in 1999 ranked her 27th among "the 100 most generous Americans," said the heir to the Allen-Bradley Co. fortune has been credited with well over $160 million in grants during her lifetime.
In 1903, her father, Harry Bradley, and an uncle, Lynde Bradley, founded the Allen-Bradley Co., which is now Rockwell Automation. The privately held company was sold to Rockwell International in 1985 for $1.6 billion.
Pettit also owned the Milwaukee Admirals of the American Hockey League.
Among her larger gifts were more than $90 million for the Bradley Center in the late 1980s, $20 million for the Lynde and Harry Bradley School of Technology & Trade and $6 million toward construction of the Pettit National Ice Center, the Olympic ice oval and rinks that bear her name.
Pettit divorced Lloyd Pettit in 1998 after 29 years of marriage. Her two children, a son and daughter, of River Hills, were from a previous marriage to David Uihlein, Croak said. She also was survived by five grandchildren.
Deceased Name: MILWAUKEE BENEFACTOR PETTIT DIES JANE PETTIT DONATED MORE THAN $250 MILLION TO THE CITY IN THE LAST 16 YEARS.
The city lost its most generous philanthropist in history with the passing of Jane Pettit, who died after a yearlong battle with lung cancer. She donated more than $250 million in the last 16 years in support of sports, arts, education and social services.
"I think her legacy of philanthropy is one that is not going to be matched for a long, long time to come," said Christopher Goldsmith, executive director of the Milwaukee Art Museum. Pettit recently donated $13 million to the museum's $100 million Calatrava expansion.
She died Sunday evening at her River Hills home. She was 82.
John Gurda, Milwaukee historian and author of "The Making of Milwaukee," said no one in the city's history has come close to matching Pettit's donations to the community.
Pettit donated more than $250 million to the community personally and through the Jane Bradley Pettit Foundation. Pettit donated the money the museum used to buy paintings by Wisconsin painter Georgia O'Keeffe, Goldsmith said, a collection he described as one of the most significant acquisitions of the 1990s.
Worth Magazine, which in 1999 ranked her 27th among "the 100 most generous Americans," said the heir to the Allen-Bradley Co. fortune has been credited with well over $160 million in grants during her lifetime.
In 1903, her father, Harry Bradley, and an uncle, Lynde Bradley, founded the Allen-Bradley Co., which is now Rockwell Automation. The privately held company was sold to Rockwell International in 1985 for $1.6 billion.
Pettit also owned the Milwaukee Admirals of the American Hockey League.
Among her larger gifts were more than $90 million for the Bradley Center in the late 1980s, $20 million for the Lynde and Harry Bradley School of Technology & Trade and $6 million toward construction of the Pettit National Ice Center, the Olympic ice oval and rinks that bear her name.
Pettit divorced Lloyd Pettit in 1998 after 29 years of marriage. Her two children, a son and daughter, of River Hills, were from a previous marriage to David Uihlein, Croak said. She also was survived by five grandchildren.
Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI) - September 11, 2001
Deceased Name: MILWAUKEE BENEFACTOR PETTIT DIES JANE PETTIT DONATED MORE THAN $250 MILLION TO THE CITY IN THE LAST 16 YEARS.
The city lost its most generous philanthropist in history with the passing of Jane Pettit, who died after a yearlong battle with lung cancer. She donated more than $250 million in the last 16 years in support of sports, arts, education and social services.
"I think her legacy of philanthropy is one that is not going to be matched for a long, long time to come," said Christopher Goldsmith, executive director of the Milwaukee Art Museum. Pettit recently donated $13 million to the museum's $100 million Calatrava expansion.
She died Sunday evening at her River Hills home. She was 82.
John Gurda, Milwaukee historian and author of "The Making of Milwaukee," said no one in the city's history has come close to matching Pettit's donations to the community.
Pettit donated more than $250 million to the community personally and through the Jane Bradley Pettit Foundation. Pettit donated the money the museum used to buy paintings by Wisconsin painter Georgia O'Keeffe, Goldsmith said, a collection he described as one of the most significant acquisitions of the 1990s.
Worth Magazine, which in 1999 ranked her 27th among "the 100 most generous Americans," said the heir to the Allen-Bradley Co. fortune has been credited with well over $160 million in grants during her lifetime.
In 1903, her father, Harry Bradley, and an uncle, Lynde Bradley, founded the Allen-Bradley Co., which is now Rockwell Automation. The privately held company was sold to Rockwell International in 1985 for $1.6 billion.
Pettit also owned the Milwaukee Admirals of the American Hockey League.
Among her larger gifts were more than $90 million for the Bradley Center in the late 1980s, $20 million for the Lynde and Harry Bradley School of Technology & Trade and $6 million toward construction of the Pettit National Ice Center, the Olympic ice oval and rinks that bear her name.
Pettit divorced Lloyd Pettit in 1998 after 29 years of marriage. Her two children, a son and daughter, of River Hills, were from a previous marriage to David Uihlein, Croak said. She also was survived by five grandchildren.
Deceased Name: MILWAUKEE BENEFACTOR PETTIT DIES JANE PETTIT DONATED MORE THAN $250 MILLION TO THE CITY IN THE LAST 16 YEARS.
The city lost its most generous philanthropist in history with the passing of Jane Pettit, who died after a yearlong battle with lung cancer. She donated more than $250 million in the last 16 years in support of sports, arts, education and social services.
"I think her legacy of philanthropy is one that is not going to be matched for a long, long time to come," said Christopher Goldsmith, executive director of the Milwaukee Art Museum. Pettit recently donated $13 million to the museum's $100 million Calatrava expansion.
She died Sunday evening at her River Hills home. She was 82.
John Gurda, Milwaukee historian and author of "The Making of Milwaukee," said no one in the city's history has come close to matching Pettit's donations to the community.
Pettit donated more than $250 million to the community personally and through the Jane Bradley Pettit Foundation. Pettit donated the money the museum used to buy paintings by Wisconsin painter Georgia O'Keeffe, Goldsmith said, a collection he described as one of the most significant acquisitions of the 1990s.
Worth Magazine, which in 1999 ranked her 27th among "the 100 most generous Americans," said the heir to the Allen-Bradley Co. fortune has been credited with well over $160 million in grants during her lifetime.
In 1903, her father, Harry Bradley, and an uncle, Lynde Bradley, founded the Allen-Bradley Co., which is now Rockwell Automation. The privately held company was sold to Rockwell International in 1985 for $1.6 billion.
Pettit also owned the Milwaukee Admirals of the American Hockey League.
Among her larger gifts were more than $90 million for the Bradley Center in the late 1980s, $20 million for the Lynde and Harry Bradley School of Technology & Trade and $6 million toward construction of the Pettit National Ice Center, the Olympic ice oval and rinks that bear her name.
Pettit divorced Lloyd Pettit in 1998 after 29 years of marriage. Her two children, a son and daughter, of River Hills, were from a previous marriage to David Uihlein, Croak said. She also was survived by five grandchildren.
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