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People and Happenings What will be your legacy? If you’d like to preserve Mount Auburn Cemetery for future generations, please consider a bequest. Bequests offer you maximum flexibility when making a legacy gift to Mount Auburn Cemetery. You may leave a specific dollar amount; a per- centage of your estate; a residual, which provides for Mount Auburn after other beneficiaries have been provided for; or other property. If you are interested in making a bequest, you may use the following language to include Mount Auburn in your estate plans: “I give the sum of _____ dollars ($______) [or ____% of my estate] [or description of other property] to the Friends of Mount Auburn Cemetery, a federally tax-exempt charitable trust with offices at 580 Mount Auburn Street, Cambridge, MA 02138” To learn how a bequest to Mount Auburn can help you meet your philanthropic and financial goals, please contact Piper Morris, Senior Vice President of Development, at 617-607-1919 or [email protected]. © richard cheek Spring 2010 | 21