A WOMAN who spent most of her life working alongside her brother in their family law firm has left the bulk of a £2 million fortune to charity.
Pauline Pettefar shared a home on the Isle of Skye with her solicitor brother Neil after moving to Scotland from England more than 30 years go.
Miss Pettefar was born in Cambridgeshire where her father George was a partner in law firm Metcalfe, Copeman and Pettefar.
Her brother enjoyed a career in law and the siblings worked in the family business. Miss Pettefar began work there in 1941 due to staff shortages in the Second World War but remained for the next 38 years.
Mr Pettefar retired from the firm in 1979 but carried out consultancy work for five years before moving north with Miss Pettefar.
Neither sibling married or had children. They focused on helping community projects on their beloved Skye.
Mr Pettefar died in 2004 but Miss Pettefar lived in the family home until her death, aged 91, in June this year.
It has emerged she had amassed £2,080,300 and had left orders for a large portion to be put into a trust fund she set up after her brother died.
She ordered £500,000 should be handed over to family and friends and also asked for the Royal National Lifeboat Institution to be given £10,000.
She left her £285,000 house to a cousin. The Skye-based Crossroads Care group are also to be gifted £100,000.
The remaining £1.1m has been placed in the Neil and Pauline Pettefar Charitable Trust.
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