Donated house, contents nets Humane Society $125k

GAINESVILLE - A woman left her home and its contents to the Hall County Humane Society more than a year ago. Now the shelter has sold it all, and its bank account is much fatter.

"It's probably close to $125,000," Humane Society Director Rick Aiken said of how much the shelter made from the sale of the North Hall home, about $75,000 of it from the sale of the house alone.

Henrietta Wilson left the home, her furniture and several certificates of deposit to the organization in her will.

Aiken said some of the things they sold hadn't even been used.

"She had all these porcelain plates and dolls and a large number of them were never opened," he said.

Aiken said she did not specify in her will how the money should be used.

"It will go into the general fund and a lot of it goes toward our spay and neutering, adoption and education," he said.

Aiken said Wilson was an animal lover and called her pets her "children."

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