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Amish Reluctantly Accept Donations
A nine-person panel, called the Nickel Mines Accountability Committee, formed Wednesday to decide how the money will be distributed. Seven Amish elders and two non-Amish sit on the panel.
At the behest of Amish leaders, a fund has also been set up for the gunman's wife and his three children.
  An Amish girl participates in the funeral procession for Mary Liz Miller and Lena Miller as it makes it's way down Georgetown Road in Georgetown, Pa. on Thursday, Oct. 5, 2006. Charles Carl Roberts IV stormed the Amish schoolhouse and shot 10 girls before turning the gun on himself. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer) (Mary Altaffer - AP) 
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Fulton Bank set up an account in the name of Roberts' widow, Marie, on Thursday after securing permission through her minister, said bank spokeswoman Laura Wakeley.
"They really had nothing to do with this and now they are without a husband and a father, a source of support for the family," she said.
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