NANCY MCLAUGHLIN Greensboro News & Record

Florence Fuller Phillips moved into Well-Spring just months after it opened 30 years ago, first living in an apartment and much later, the skilled nursing arm.

She took up ballroom dancing. Played bridge. Tended to her roses.

Phillips, who had no biological children, died there in August 2024 at the age of 100.

She remembered Well-Spring in her will, leaving the retirement community $24 million.

“I had to count the commas,” K. Alan Tutterow, co-chief financial officer of Kintura, the parent company of Well-Spring, said of the check.

After meeting with the executor of the will, Tutterow met with his board of directors. “There were a lot of gasps in the room,” Lynn Wooten, the company’s executive vice president of communications, brand strategy

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