Former state Sen. Shaffer wills over $6M to county charities
PENN TWP — Friends and family of former state Sen. Tim Shaffer gathered Friday, Aug. 4, as his estate willed over $6M to county charities with half supporting community college scholarships.
Friend and former partner Tom King, of Dillon, McCandless, King, Coulter & Graham, called the gift “Tim’s legacy.”
Shaffer, 76, died May 3, 2022.
“His legacy and his message (was) to give to other people,” King said to a gathering at the Butler Country Club. “He was kind, he was good-hearted, he was a partisan, he was a soldier, he was a lawyer, he was a state senator, he was a judge, he was a son, he was a cousin and he was a friend.”
Shaffer left half his estate, totaling just over $3 million, to Butler County Community College’s Education Foundation. Shaffer previously contributed $1 million to the foundation in 2018 which helped fund construction of the Victor K. Phillips Nursing and Allied Health Building.
A lifelong member of the Emmanuel Lutheran Church of Prospect, Shaffer gave them $1.2 million.
Harmony Historic Society also received $1.2 million from Shaffer, a former board member, and the Butler County Historical Society received over $600,000.
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