This builder saved $3 million and gave it all to school 33 foreigners

Dale Schroeder was a simple, modest man from Iowa who changed 33 people's lives forever.

Schroeder has worked as a builder in the same company for 67 years as he grew up poor and had neither his wife nor his children, broadcasting time.net.

His friend Steve Nielsen for Schroder says “he went to work every day. It worked really hard. He was a thrifter, he's like a lot of evidence”.

When he died in 2005, no one could know how rich Schroeder was, “He had jeans for church and work jeans”, Nielson said.

Schroeder has spared an entire fortune over the years. He had no descendants, so before he died, he went to his lawyer with a plan for his money.

He said, "I've never been able to go to college. So I want to help the kids go to college”, Nielsen says.

And he said, "oh for only $3 million shy," I almost fell off the chair”, you remember Nielsen.

Schroeder's company was shocked by the wealth he had managed to save, and so were the foreigners who took his money.

Kira Conrad was one of them. In high school, she had grades to go to college, but not money.

I grew up in a house with only one parent, and I had three older sisters, so the payment to the fourth of us, never was the” option, she said.

And so Schroeder paid for her education.

He has left some specific instructions on how to spend his money: send children to the small town of Iowa to college.

He was supposed to help kids who were like him, who probably wouldn't be able to go to college, but if it wasn't for him, said Nielsen.

Schroeder paid 33 strangers to college. The group, which has called itself the “Dale~ children of Dale”, have come together this month to honor the man who changed their lives. They are now doctors, professors, therapists and friends.