Ann Lurie, who used her late husband’s substantial estate for wide-ranging philanthropic endeavors that included the Lurie Children’s Hospital in Chicago, has died at 79.
Imbued with the spirit of doing good while growing up as the only child of a single mother in Florida, Ann Lurie would, in a most energetic and self-effacing fashion, become one of the most prolific philanthropists in the history of this city.
Ann Lurie born in Florida, the only child of Marion Elizabeth Blue, a Canadian who worked as a nurse. Her father abandoned the family when Ann was four and she was raised in a middle-class Miami household by her mother, grandmother and an aunt. Obviously influenced by her mother’s profession, she aspired to a career in nursing, which she began to pursue at the University of Florida on scholarship.
He was a charming and distinctive looking 31-year-old, with bushy hair and a substantial mustache. He was also well on his way to becoming wealthy as the business partner of real estate magnate Sam Zell. The two men met as undergraduates and fraternity brothers at the University of Michigan, where they began managing off-campus apartment housing. Several years after college, they joined forces in Chicago, and, together, built what became Equity Group Investments and its many offshoots.
The next year, Bob was diagnosed with terminal colon cancer. He fought it but died on June 20, 1990, at 48, leaving his wife, their six children and an estate worth $425 million.For a time, Ann struggled with understanding her husband’s finances and investments — even, she told people, buying the book “Accounting for Dummies” — and also with the emotional demands of her kids, then ages 5 to 15.
Before his death, she and her husband had drawn up a detailed philanthropic template for Ann to follow that was divided into six categories: medical services and research; child-related medical organizations; basic services including food and shelter; education; the arts; and so-called “wild things.”
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