Five organizations in Loudoun County, Virginia, have received bequests totaling more than $10 million from the trust and estate of A.V. Symington, Leesburg Today reports.

Symington, who died in August 2003, left $2.5 million to the Ida Lee Recreation Center and Rust Library, both in Leesburg, and $1.25 million to both the Loudoun Country Day School and Oatlands Plantation. She also left $2.5 million to the 286-acre Temple Hall Farm north of Leesburg, which the Symington family donated to the Northern Virginia Regional Park Authority facility more than twenty years ago; and $200,000 to maintain a 52-acre tract of land on Bald Hill Road north of Waterford. In addition to the $10 million in bequests, the organizations will receive equal shares of the residual estate, currently estimated to be worth approximately $7 million.

"She was a lover," said nephew and co-trustee Henry Harris. "She loved people and books, she loved swimming and she loved the land. She loved Loudoun County, and these five organizations represent something that she loved."