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Q: (CNN) Genevieve Via Cava loved teaching and loved her students. Now, seven years after her death, they are learning just how much. 
  
 The teacher in Dumont, New Jersey, devoted 45 years of her life to helping students with learning disabilities. After her retirement in 1990, Via Cava continued to visit the school district for which she worked, checking in on classes and sometimes stopping by the superintendent's office. 
  
 Via Cava died in 2011. And this April, the Dumont Public Schools received something they never expected: a check from her estate for $1 million. 
  
 The former educator, who had no children or immediate family of her own, had amassed a small fortune through her exceptional saving habits. She left the astonishing donation in her will to fund scholarships for special education students seeking post-secondary education. 
  
 School superintendent Emanuele Triggiano calls Via Cava's gift "a blessing." In her frequent visits, Via Cava had told Triggiano about her passion for her students and how much she liked working at Dumont. 
  
 Read More ||||| CLOSE A special education teacher from the Dumont School District left a parting gift for her beloved students after she passed away: $1 million. Stephanie Noda, Staff Writer 
  
 Genevieve Via Cava. (Photo: Photo courtesy of Richard Jablonski) 
  
 DUMONT — About 10 years ago, Superintendent Emanuele Triggiano remembers laughing when a retired teacher told him that she was going to donate a million dollars. 
  
 “I thought it was a joke,” Triggiano said. “But then we got the paperwork.” 
  
 Genevieve Via Cava, a special educator teacher in the Dumont school district, had amassed a small fortune throughout her life. When she died in 2011, she left her savings to help some of the people who meant the most to her: her special education students. 
  
 “She was very kindhearted, sometimes with a rough exterior, but very compassionate deep down,” said Richard Jablonski, a close friend and executor of her will. “She was very loving and won people over with her beautiful smile.” 
  
 Starting with the 2019-20 school year, one special education student seeking post-high-school education, such as college or a trade school, will be eligible for a $25,000 scholarship thanks to Via Cava’s million-dollar gift. The money will stay in a fund that will generate interest, allowing the district to continue giving out the scholarships for years to come, said Business Administrator Kevin Cartotto. 
  
 Via Cava, who had no children, had spent most her of professional career in the school district, teaching both regular and special education. 
  
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 Her desire to pay it forward to help the future generation comes as no surprise to those who knew her best. Jablonski first met Via Cava over 35 years ago, when he operated an Annie Sez store in Closter. Via Cava would come in all the time with her husband, eventually becoming a regular customer. After her husband died around 1998, Via Cava, who lived in Oradell, would continue to frequent the store, making friends with whomever she came across that day. 
  
 “She was an amazing woman who could light up a room just by walking in,” Jablonski said. “She had a smile that was unbelievable. She could talk to anybody just to start conversation with them, and by the time they walked away, they would be hugging.” 
  
 It wasn’t just strangers that she had a knack for connecting with, but former students, too. No matter how many years had passed, she would still recognize and chat with them. 
  
 In some cases, she would help former students — who were then in their 20s or 30s — find jobs, thanks to the connections she had made in the area, said James Kennedy, another friend. 
  
 “She had an uncanny memory when it came to her students and could remember things that happened a long time ago,” he said. 
  
 Kennedy, who would eventually become principal at the district's Selzer School, knows firsthand how well Via Cava connected with students: He was one of her students himself. Kennedy had Via Cava for seventh-grade English when she taught regular education courses. 
  
 “She had a very good sense of humor,” Kennedy said. “She made kids feel relaxed and was very approachable as a person.” 
  
 Kennedy would eventually leave Dumont to go to college and teach in the Bronx, but later came back to his home district to work as a director of special services. There he reunited with Via Cava, who was then working as a learning consultant for the Child Study Team. 
  
 In addition to being a caring teacher in the classroom, Via Cava tried to help students outside the classroom, Kennedy said. She would befriend their parents and refer them to after-school groups that help special education students transition into daily life. 
  
 During all the time she was teaching and selflessly caring for students, Via Cava scrimped and saved, denying herself many things. 
  
 Jablonski thought it was probably a habit she picked up from having endured the Great Depression. When she started to lose her hearing later in life, she even refused to get hearing aids, Jablonski said. 
  
 “The Great Depression really left a mark on her,” he said. “I asked her what she was saving for, since she could afford it, and it would change her life for the better.” 
  
 What she was saving for, it turns out, was to help Dumont students, just as she had done throughout her life. 
  
 “She’s leaving behind a lasting legacy,” Jablonski said. 
  
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 Read or Share this story: https://njersy.co/2sDUiJc ||||| A special education teacher quietly amassed a $1 million fortune and bequeathed it to a New Jersey public school district to help the special education students she spent her career teaching. Now the money is being put to use via a scholarship for the 2019-2020 school year. 
  
 Around 10 years ago, retired special educator teacher Genevieve Via Cava told Dumont Public School District superintendent Emanuele Triggiano that she was going to donate a million dollars, according to NorthJersey.com. 
  
 "I thought it was a joke," Triggiano told NorthJersey.com. "But then we got the paperwork." 
  
 "I was not shocked she would donate something, I was shocked by the number," Triggiano, tells CNBC Make It. "She was a teacher here, very unassuming, very modest...[and] that's a large sum of money for anyone." 
  
 During her life, Genevieve Via Cava quietly socked away savings, and after her passing in 2011, left the million-dollar gift to the Dumont Board of Education. Her will instructed the money to be used to benefit special education students in the Dumont school district, located in Bergen County, New Jersey, where she worked for nearly 45 years. The Dumont public school system includes five schools, and serves students in grades kindergarten through 12th, according to its website. 
  
 Triggiano tells CNBC Make It the schools received the check within the last month or so, due to legalities being worked out and processes put in place. The money will be doled out in the form of scholarships: Beginning with the 2019-2020 school year, one special education student from the school system who is pursuing a post-high school education will be eligible for a $25,000 scholarship. The money, courtesy of Via Cava's gift, will fund scholarships for years to come, according to a report in NorthJersey.com. 
  
 Via Cava, who had no children, began at the school district as a regular and special education teacher in 1945. She had a reputation of being kind and generous, according to NorthJersey.com. Both strangers and former students described the former teacher as very likable, noting her sense of humor, good memory and ability to talk to anyone. 
  
 Her generosity didn't end with the work day. NorthJersey.com reports that she would befriend parents, referring them to after-school groups aimed at helping special education students transition to daily life, and at times, helped former students find jobs. 
  
 Via Cava was also reportedly known for being a super-saver, even refusing to purchase hearing aids when she began to lose her hearing. 
  
 "I asked her what she was saving for, since she could afford it, and it would change her life for the better," Richard Jablonski, a close friend of Via Cava and executor of her will, told NorthJersey.com. 
  
 According to Jablonski, it had to do with her growing up during the Great Depression, which "really left a mark on her," he told the publication. 
  
 This isn't the first time a seemingly average person has donated a shocking — and substantial — gift. 
  
 Sylvia Bloom, a secretary, amassed a multi-million dollar fortune by living modestly and investing wisely. After the 96-year-old passed away in 2016, her family and friends learned about her wealth, and she distributed $8 million in her will towards charitable causes. Like Via Cava, Bloom was a part of the generation who had been put through trying times during the Depression, which reportedly had an impact on her view towards money and empathy. 
  
 Other noteworthy posthumous philanthropic donations include Ronald Read's. The one-time janitor and gas station attendant built an $8 million fortune by budgeting and investing, and left most of his wealth to his local library and hospital after he died. 
  
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Genevieve Via Cava was so frugal that a friend tells CNN she went without the hearing aids she needed. The New Jersey special education teacher died in 2011, but her penny-pinching is now grabbing national headlines thanks to her largesse. Bergen County's Dumont School District in April received a $1 million check from her estate and has announced that beginning with the next school year, one special education student per year will receive a $25,000 scholarship to fund post-high-school education. Superintendent Emanuele Triggiano tells NorthJersey.com that Via Cava told her of her intentions roughly a decade ago. His response? He laughed. "I thought it was a joke," he says. "I was not shocked she would donate something," Triggiano tells CNBC. "I was shocked by the number. ... That's a large sum of money for anyone." Via Cava's husband died in 1998, and the couple had no children. A teacher for nearly 45 years, her consideration for her students is described as notable, with another friend saying "she had an uncanny memory when it came to her students" and was able to recall faces and details from years before. She was also quick to help where she could, helping some secure jobs when they were in their 20s and 30s. Via Cava's attorney tells CNN five additional gifts of $100,000 were made to groups that include the Ramapo Animal Refuge and the Salvation Army. As for why the money is being donated so many years after her death, "it was a sizable estate and it takes time to get the federal government and state government to approve and finalize estate tax returns." (After a recluse died, this nonprofit got a surprise $125 million.)