Raine Medical Research Foundation

In the mid-1950s, the University of Western Australia launched an appeal for funds to create a medical school, and the Raines were approached directly for a contribution. A donation was made, with the promise of more in future.[1]

In September 1956 Joe suffered a severe stroke caused by arteriosclerosis, resulting in paralysis. After several weeks in hospital, with no sign of recovery, he was moved to room in the Wentworth Hotel, with a hospital bed and a team of nurses to tend him.[2]^:169–170 On 11 February 1957 he suffered a cerebral haemorrhage and died.[1] Mary inherited Joe's estate, worth £153,906, and donated it to the University of WA[lower-alpha 2] to establish the Arnold Yeldham and Mary Raine Medical Research Foundation, with the money to be invested and initially used for research into arteriosclerosis.[1][3]

In 1957 Raine made a new will, leaving small amounts to some friends and family – she had no children of her own – with the bulk of her estate to go the University, for the purposes of finding a cure for the illness that killed Joe. She signed a deed of trust with the University to specify how the estate was to be used after her death, and formalising the donation of Joe's estate.[4][2]^:177–179 Raine instructed that none of the money she left was be used for a building or monument in her or Joe's name.[1]