'Eccentric' regular at Lincoln soup kitchen left a big surprise: $20,000 each to 24 charities
Source: Omaha World Herald-AP
LINCOLN (AP) — Maybe you saw Bonnie Kaltenborn.
Maybe you saw her walking with her cane as she made her rounds from her small apartment on the south edge of downtown. To the banks up the street, to the concerts at Foundation Garden, to the library, to her lawyer's office.
Or maybe you saw through Bonnie Kaltenborn.
Shoes too thin for the cold. Knit gloves patched with duct tape. Bad teeth. She visited one bank for its free coffee, the other for its popcorn. She ate many of her meals at Matt Talbot before the soup kitchen moved out of walking distance, and she was a regular at the food pantry at a downtown church.
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and life styles. There was a lot of poor bashing so common these days but also some thoughtful comments about how much more complex peoples lives are than we can know when we see them from the outside looking out of our own little bubble of life experience and often judging unkindly from that point of view. Here is a perfect example of exactly that!
Our family had a similar case in my mother's generation of two maiden Aunts who lived on a small inheritance and everyone sent them hand me downs to wear and their brother would give them extra money. When they died they left a small fortune to their nieces and nephews to everyone's shock! 
