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Benefactors & Legacy

Benefactors

Graf, Sheila Dickinson Dinsmore*

Graf, Sheila Dickinson Dinsmore*

Sheila Dickinson Dinsmore Graf

*Deceased

NARRATIVE:
Sheila's father, R.S. Dickinson, was a founding partner and a long-time president of Nebraska Consolidated Mills which would become ConAgra Foods. Sheila's mother was a native of upstate New York who came to Ravenna, Nebraska, as a young women to teach school.

"Sheila gave to many organizations anonymously because she didn't feel she should get credit for giving money that had been given to her." - Burket Graf

COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT:
Delta Gamma, University of Colorado
Unitarian Church

EDUCATION:
University of Colorado, A.B., 1945
Omaha Central High School, Omaha, NE, 1941

PERSONAL:
Husband: Burket
Children: Lee, Stephen, David, Richard, Barbara
Stepchildren: Burket "Ted," George, Katherine and Julie

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