Ruth Ziolkowski
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FILE - In this June 13, 2006 file photo, Ruth Ziolkowski, widow of sculptor Korczak Ziolkowski who began carving the likeness of Sioux warrior Crazy Horse into a granite mountain in 1948, discusses the ongoing project at Crazy Horse Memorial in the Black Hills near Custer, S.D. Ruth, who took over the dream of her husband, upon his death in 1982 and turned it into a multimillion-dollar operation that draws more than a million visitors a year, died Wednesday, May 21, 2014 at age 87. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green, File)
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FILE - In this June 13, 2006 file photo, Ruth Ziolkowski, widow of sculptor Korczak Ziolkowski who began carving the likeness of Sioux warrior Crazy Horse into a granite mountain in 1948, discusses the ongoing project with her daughter Jadwiga Ziolkowski, left, at Crazy Horse Memorial in the Black Hills near Custer, S.D. Ruth, who took over the dream of her husband, upon his death in 1982 and turned it into a multimillion-dollar operation that draws more than a million visitors a year, died Wednesday, May 21, 2014 at age 87. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green, File)
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FILE - In this June 14, 2006 file photo, Ruth Ziolkowski, widow of sculptor Korczak Ziolkowski who began carving the likeness of Sioux warrior Crazy Horse into a granite mountain in 1948, conducts business on the ongoing project at her dining room table at Crazy Horse Memorial in the Black Hills near Custer, S.D. Ziolkowski, who took over the dream of her husband, upon his death in 1982 and turned it into a multimillion-dollar operation that draws more than a million visitors a year, died Wednesday, May 21, 2014 at age 87. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green, File)
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FILE - In this May 21, 2008 file photo, Ruth Ziolkowski sits for a photo in the restaurant at Crazy Horse, S.D. Her late husband, sculptor Korczak Ziolkowski, began the Crazy Horse mountain carving 60 years ago, on June 3, 1948. Ziolkowski, who took over the dream of her husband, upon his death in 1982 and turned it into a multimillion-dollar operation that draws more than a million visitors a year, died Wednesday May 21, 2014 at age 87 according to a spokesman. (AP Photo/Carson Walker, File)
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FILE - In this Aug. 21, 2010 file photo, Ruth Ziolkowski, president and chief executive of the Crazy Horse Memorial, stands in front of a plaster rendering of Crazy Horse with what will be the world's largest mountain carving in the background, near Custer, S.D. Ziolkowski is the widow of sculptor Korczak Ziolkowski, who started the memorial on June 3, 1948. Ruth, who took over the dream of her husband, upon his death in 1982 and turned it into a multimillion-dollar operation that draws more than a million visitors a year, died Wednesday May 21, 2014 at age 87 acording to a spokesman. (AP Photo/Dirk Lammers, File)
