Topeka ? A funeral is scheduled for 10:30 a.m. today for Ruth Garvey Fink, a businesswoman and philanthropist who died at the age of 90.

The service will be at White Concert Hall on the Washburn University campus in Topeka. The university was one of Fink’s causes.

Fink gave away between $200,000 and $300,000 a year in the past 20 years, for a total of more than $5 million, said Terry Wages, a longtime friend and business associate. Besides the university, her other causes included The Salvation Army, Stormont-Vail HealthCare and the Kansas Newspaper Foundation.

“God is good and she was blessed, so she turned around and blessed the community,” Wages said.

Wages said Fink’s health was good until July, when a valve in her heart was torn while she was on vacation.

Fink was a board member of Stauffer Communications and was a managing partner and later president of C-G-F Grain Co. Its grain elevators were later sold to Cargill.

“Philanthropy is not just money; it’s giving,” Fink told the Topeka Capital-Journal in 2003. “My family never sought this kind of publicity. Our parents taught us never to do anything for credit – to do it for the value of the thing itself.”

Fink’s death Tuesday also was mourned by prominent political leaders, including former Sen. Bob Dole. Kansas Senate President Steve Morris and Majority Leader Derek Schmidt called her “the standard of philanthropy.”

“Her spirit of unselfish generosity will live on in the many gifts she gave to her community and her state,” they said in a statement.

Doug Anstaett, executive director of the Kansas Press Association, noted that Garvey donated $100,000 to efforts to help educate people about the U.S. Constitution and its Bill of Rights.

Fink was born April 26, 1917, in Colby, the oldest of four children.

She went to college at Wichita University and the University of Illinois, earning a bachelor’s degree in business. She also attended Kansas University. She came to Topeka in 1950.

She was widowed twice. Her second husband, Bernerd Fink, died in 1999.