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West Chester gets gift from alumna

West Chester announces gift from alumna to support music scholarships.

An alumna left part of her estate, worth more than $441,000, to West Chester University to support music scholarships, the school announced Thursday.

Thelma (Creveling) Folkner, a 1934 graduate of West Chester's College of Education, left her entire estate to West Chester and Centenary College, her daughter's alma mater, the West Chester University Foundation said in a press release Thursday.

As a student, Folkner was active in the university's Symphony Orchestra and Music Club. Folkner had lived with her daughter, who died earlier of congestive heard failure, on three acres of farmland in northern New Jersey.