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310:'s Count and Countess de Hoernle Sports and Cultural Center with a $ 2.5 million donation, and their names are on two other Lynn buildings: Count and Countess de Hoernle Residence Hall and de Hoernle International Center. His funds helped build the Countess de Hoernle Student Life Center on the 247:
Over the course of three decades, with the Countess taking the more public role as a leader or board member of a host of charity foundations, the Count followed her guidance in donating millions of dollars of his fortune. Recipients in New York included the
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Adolfe de Hoernle (May 10, 1903 — September 10, 1998) was born in Pforzheim, Germany. He earned his degree as an engineer in 1923 and emigrated to the United States in 1926.
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Henrietta Rach (September 24, 1912 — July 22, 2016) was born in Karlsruhe, Germany, the daughter of musicians. She emigrated to the United States in 1931.
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company (merged in 1999 with Eyelets for Industry to create Stewart EFI). He sold the company and retired in 1965. He suffered a stroke in 1990.
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were a German-born American philanthropic couple who made many major donations to arts, educational, and social agencies, primarily in the
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of Boca by then-Mayor Bill T. Smith. A statue of the couple, created by artist & sculptor
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De Hoernle created his fortune as creator and owner of the Stewart Stamping Corporation of
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in Bronxville, where the east wing is named The Hoernle Pavilion.
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in Yonkers, the Isabella Home for the Aged in New York City, and
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station in Boca Raton, which after their $ 500,000 donation for
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Rach married Adolfe on October 26, 1950, and they settled in
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They are buried in Forest Lawn Memorial Gardens North in
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has a Boca Raton address but is not in the city limits.
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Pforzheim
Pompano Beach, Florida
Karlsruhe
Pompano Beach, Florida
Philanthropist
Boca Raton, Florida
Knights of Malta
Yonkers, New York
metal stamping
Bronxville, New York
bridge
Hudson River Museum
Lawrence Hospital
Boca Raton, Florida
cruises
Boca Raton Museum of Art
Boca Raton Community Hospital
Boca Express Train Museum
Caldwell Theater
Spanish River Community High School
YMCA of Boca Raton
Palm Beach State College
Florida Atlantic University
Association for Retarded Citizens
Lynn University
West Palm Beach
Keiser University
Mizner Park
Florida East Coast Railway
renovation

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