Berkshire Hathaway’s 2019 shareholders meeting Omaha, Warren Buffett in Nebraska. Johannes through Isail/AFP Getty Image
In the 2023 letter from Warren Buffett, Berkshire Hathaway shareholders were published on 24 February, an unfamiliar name, Burti, popped up 20 times. Burti is the younger sister of Warren Buffett. The legendary investor stated that Bathy is a “perfect mental model”, when imagining who the owners of Burkshire Hathaway (BRK.A) stock should be.
“Burty is smart, intelligent and likes to challenge my thinking. However, we have never done anything close to a screaming match or a broken relationship, ”Buffett wrote. “Besty, and along with his three daughters -is a large part of his savings in Berkshire’s shares. Their ownership extends for decades, and every year Besty will read what I have to say. ,
Born three years after Warren in 1933, Roberta “Burthe” Buffett was the youngest of three children. She and Warren have an elder sister, Doris. His father, Howard H. Buffett, four words in the US House of Representatives in the 1940s and 1950s. Burti has described his home as a religious form, which attends the church every Sunday. She was taught to “get good grades, be humble, be helpful, look beautiful … and your highest calling would be to find a good husband,” she said in a documentary by the Film Foundation in 2015. She says, “I think it was her world.”
Growing up, Bathy drank his grandfather, Ernest. Buffett spent a lot of time with the owner of a grocery store in Omaha. “He taught me how to play cards, and I loved to go to his house … I still think of him with very fond memories,” he said in the 2015 documentary.
When Howard H. When Buffett was first selected for the Congress, the Buffett family went to Fredericksburg, VA and later Washington DC Burty described it as a difficult step, where only her sister Doris was able to adjust quickly. Homasic, Warren for Omaha, went back to live with his grandfather. In 1948, when Howard H. When Buffett lost the election again, the rest of the Buffett family went back to Omaha, and Burty enrolled in the local Banson High School.
At the age of 18, Burty left for Chicago to attend Northwestern University. Unlike Warren, who attended the University of Nebraska, Besty said that his decision to attend the Windi City School was “ahead of the house ahead of the house, more sophisticated and more exciting”, “he said in an interview with his Alma Metter last year. He graduated with a bachelor’s degree and fee beta kappa honor in 1954. He graduated in 1954. Was, who later became Warren’s first wife.
Burti is married three times. In 1955, she tied the knot with Charlie Snorf, then an ambitious surgeon from whom she met in Northwestern. Later he Married to Hilton Bielec, who died in 2002. In 2007, Bathy married David Elliot, who was a businessman who passed in 2017.
Berties are known for their philanthropic efforts. In 2014, he donated $ 101 million to create Robert Buffett Institute for Global Affairs at Northwestern University.
Her donation also extends to local communities: for six decades, she is actively attached as board members of various community organizations in the Monateri Peninsula in California, where she lives. Notable institutions include Montere Bay Aquarium, Carmel Bakh Festival and Community Hospitals of the Montere Peninsula. In 2017, Bathy made a historical contribution to the Monterey County by providing adequate funds to the innovative approach leading to hair and teenage mental health.
Burty has three living children: Susan Lansbury, Synthia Livermore and Caroline Akkan; She avoids another daughter Sally Snow.