Nancy Walton Laurie
Henderson, Nevada
Bachelor of Arts/Science, University of Memphis
United States
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Walmart
$6,500,000,000
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#303 Billionaires 2019
#109 Forbes 400 2018
Nancy Walton-Laurie inherited a stake in Walmart from her father, Bud Walton, who helped his brother, Sam, build the retail giant.When Bud died in 1995, Walton-Laurie and her sister, Ann Walton-Kroenke, received enough Walmart stock to make them both billionaires.Walton-Laurie and her husband, Bill, also own Missouri's Providence Bank, several homes and a yacht. They gave $10 million in 2013 to the University of Memphis, their alma mater.
In 1998 Walton-Laurie founded Columbia Performing Arts Centre, a performing arts school for children through high school in Columbia, Missouri. She and her husband purchased the NHL's St. Louis Blues in 1999. They sold the team six years later.
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