4. His Housekeeper Was Worth a Fortune
Walt had a live-in housekeeper for 30 years named Thelma Howard. Each year, her holiday bonus would be shares of the Disney company. At the time it seemed like a nice gesture, but it was in 1994 that her estate found out just how nice of a gesture it was. She died that year, and half of her estate, which was worth $9 million USD, went to her son, while the rest went to help the homeless and disadvantaged. This was because of the fact that she grew up in extreme poverty. This is just another way that Walt touched the lives of so many people just because of the good deeds that he did for them. They in turn, passed it on.