Carpenter sent 33 strangers to college with life savings

A carpenter saved his entire life to fund college scholarships and helped 33 strangers go to school for free

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Four years ago, one of the happiest days of Kira Conard’s life conceded a cloud of melancholy.

A carpenter from Iowa, who owned two sets of jeans and an old stained truck, paid for 33 strangers to get an advanced degree, as per KCCI.

Dale Schroeder was a straightforward man. He grew up poor. He never attended a college. He never got married. He worked at same business for a very long time.

“He was that sort of a blue-collar, lunch pail sort of a person,” Schroeder’s companion Steve Nielsen said. “Went to work every day, worked really hard, was frugal like a lot of Iowans.”

At the point when Schroeder passed on in 2005, he didn’t have any descendants. What he did have was a pair of work jeans, a pair of church jeans, a rusty Chevrolet truck, and a aspiration to help small-town kids in Iowa go to college..

“He wanted to help kids that were like him that probably wouldn’t have an opportunity to go to college but for his gift, “Nielsen said.

A lifetime of honest work now benefits others

Born in 1919, Schroeder worked as a carpenter for 67 years at the same business in Des Moines. When he died in 2005, he had amassed almost $3 million in savings.

Dale Schroeder was a basic man. He grew up poor. He never attended a university. He never got hitched. He worked at similar business for a very long time.

Over his almost 70 years of carpentry work and parsimonious living, Schroeder had amassed nearly $3 million in savings funds.

A lot of that cash went into a grant asset, and it helped 33 people attend a university free.

Those people got together 14 years after the death of a man they never met. They all assembled around Schroeder’s old lunch box and discussed the distinction he made in their lives.

Kira Conard is one of the people who now call themselves “Dale’s Kids.”

At her secondary school graduation celebration, she was getting ready to disclose to her friends that she wouldn’t be setting off for college. She had the grades but didn’t have the money.

That is until her phone rang, and she discovered  about Dale Schroeder.

“I broke down into tears immediately,” Conard recalled.

Now she’s moving on from college debt free and hoping to begin her career as a therapist.

Dale’s Kids all completed school without debt, but there was one string appended, “All we ask is that you pay it forward,” Nielsen said. “You can’t pay it back, because Dale’s gone, but you can remember him, and you can emulate him.”