After her husband died last year, Karen Huntsman decided to clean out the cupboards and drawers of their home. And as she did, she found them filled with hundreds of little notes he had written to himself.
They were scrawled on torn pieces of lined yellow paper. A few were on parts of “a barf bag from an airplane,” Huntsman recalled with a laugh. Her favorite one, though, was on a calling card from London.
On Friday, nearly a year after losing her husband who founded the institute in 1995 and with that note in mind, Karen Huntsman announced that her family will donate $30 million in his honor to again expand the research center and hospital at the University of Utah.