Background
Walton was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania the daughter of William Larimer Mellon (1868–1949), of the banking family, and himself a founder of Gulf Oil. Her mother was Mary "May" Taylor Mellon.
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Rachel Walton
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Education
Walton was educated at the Dobbs Ferry School in Dobbs Ferry, New New York
Career
Benefactor
Rachel Mellon Walton was a major benefactor to the arts, music, medicine, education, conservation, and the welfare of women. Walton also endowed the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. The Walton Hall of Ancient Egypt at the Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh.
The Carnegie Mellon Tepper School of Business.
And the Women"s Center and Shelter of Pittsburgh. In the 1970s Walton donated land to the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy for the Beechwood Farms Nature Reserve.
She died in her Oakland residence on March 2, 2006, at 107 years old.
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March 2, 2006 (aged 107)