Plan to Leave a Lasting Legacy
You can support our important work into the future while also fulfilling your own financial goals and objectives.
Your planned gift will continue to provide for the environmental education of literally thousands of people of all ages, helping them learn how they can care for and protect the environment today and for future generations. Thoughtful gift planning can use income, estate and tax strategies to maximize the benefit for you, your heirs, and the causes you believe in. Discover how your planned gift could make a significant impact and leave a legacy that will truly make a difference.
You can support our important work into the future while also fulfilling your own financial goals and objectives.
Your planned gift will continue to provide for the environmental education of literally thousands of people of all ages, helping them learn how they can care for and protect the environment today and for future generations. Thoughtful gift planning can use income, estate and tax strategies to maximize the benefit for you, your heirs, and the causes you believe in. Discover how your planned gift could make a significant impact and leave a legacy that will truly make a difference.
When you become an Osprey Wilds Legacy Society (OWLS) member you ensure that your commitment to building environmental stewards becomes part of your personal legacy. Friends of Osprey Wilds will know you were here and that you cared. You will know you are doing your part to make this world a better place. That is a true legacy.
Osprey Wilds Legacy Society Members
Anonymous
Betsy Johnston
Craig Stowell
Crystal Clift
Don and Barbara Shelby
Don and Meg Arnosti
Don Janes and Marilyn Thompson
Donald L. Nelson
Frances Duritsa
George and Marilyn Knuteson
Harriett Crosby
Jacqueline Mithun
Jane Spence
Jean Roberts
Jim and Barb McDonell
Jim and Sue DeYoung
Jim and Wilda Obey
Joan and Richard Newmark
John and Patricia Telfer
Kathleen Aust
Lily Beth Frentz
Lois Norrgard
Lydia Steensen
Marguerite Schwyzer
Mary Ellen Vetter
Mike and Deb Curran
Paulette Huddle
Richard and Connie Glattly
Richard and Patty Hapke
Robert Boelter
Roger and Ruby Trapp
Ruth Allaman
Ruth Roberts
Sam and Diana Rankin
Steve and Judy Seidmeyer
Steve and Sue McNeill
Sylvia Marcotte
Sylvia Winkelman
For more information about making a legacy gift and becoming an OWLS member, contact Camille Kiolbasa, Development Director:
Phone: 320-245-7791 | Email: development@ospreywilds.org.
Fran Duritsa’s legacy
When Frances Duritsa died in March 2020, she left a rich legacy of loving relationships, professional achievements, and volunteer activism. After her children were fully fledged, she became involved with the Minneapolis Audubon Society, serving for many years as its program chair. That brought her into contact with Northwoods Audubon Center, as the organization was known at the time.
“My mother delighted in learning and sharing knowledge about the natural world and the role of humans within it,” said Fran’s daughter Mary. “Our family’s connections to Northwoods go back to 1973, and my mother had many great experiences there.”
Included in Fran’s legacy was a planned gift benefiting Osprey Wilds—half of the remainder of a charitable gift annuity.
When you become an Osprey Wilds Legacy Society (OWLS) member you ensure that your commitment to building environmental stewards becomes part of your personal legacy. Friends of Osprey Wilds will know you were here and that you cared. You will know you are doing your part to make this world a better place. That is a true legacy.
Osprey Wilds Legacy Society Members
Anonymous
Betsy Johnston
Craig Stowell
Crystal Clift
Don and Barbara Shelby
Don and Meg Arnosti
Don Janes and Marilyn Thompson
Donald L. Nelson
Frances Duritsa
George and Marilyn Knuteson
Harriett Crosby
Jack Telfer
Jacqueline Mithun
Jane Spence
Jean Roberts
Jim and Barb McDonell
Jim and Sue DeYoung
Jim and Wilda Obey
Joan and Richard Newmark
Kathleen Aust
Lily Beth Frentz
Lois Norrgard
Lydia Steensen
Marguerite Schwyzer
Mary Ellen Vetter
Mike and Deb Curran
Paulette Huddle
Richard and Connie Glattly
Richard and Patty Hapke
Robert Boelter
Roger and Ruby Trapp
Ruth Allaman
Ruth Roberts
Sam and Diana Rankin
Steve and Judy Seidmeyer
Sylvia Marcotte
Sylvia Winkelman
For more information about making a legacy gift and becoming an OWLS member, contact Camille Kiolbasa, Development Director. Call 320-245-7791 or email development@ospreywilds.org.