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ROW #558 · LEG 83 ITEM 4 · TESTED NEGATIVE / NAMED GAP (the settler)
The Kroc pattern — one giver, two gifts, decades apart, traced as one giving life — has no Osceola instance in the record reached. The test requires a documented first gift and a documented second, tied to this ground, and the candidate fields were searched whole: the county foundation's named-fund record (whose repeat givers — the Curriers of Mishawaka, whose scholarship fund passed its millionth dollar after Donald Currier's 1998 death and Marion Currier's founding of it, on the Foundation's own telling — are Mishawaka lives, boundary-printed here at one line and no more); the P-H-M Education Foundation's naming-rights course (article 5's ladder, where Jordan Automotive Group and Zolman's Tire each gave $25,000 in January 2016 — district gifts, each documented once, neither traced to a second gift to an Osceola recipient); the churches' and Legion's records as banked; and the parks record, where the Strefling family appears once, in 2025, in a single documented act. No donor gives twice to Osceola recipients across any span in any record reached. In a town whose documented gifts arrive at four and five figures, a two-decade giving life would be the most visible object in the record; its absence is therefore evidence, not merely silence.
Closure: TESTED NEGATIVE at open-record strength; NAMED GAP for the deep form. Settler: the Community Foundation's fund-holder records read for Penn Township addresses across its full life since 1992, and Kiracofe (1988) for any pre-1992 benefactor course — either could surface a repeat giver the open web does not carry, and until one is read the negative stands.
Sources:
- Community Foundation of St. Joseph County, fund stories (cfsjc.org) — the Currier fund course, at Mishawaka boundary size.
- P-H-M School Corporation announcements, January 2016 (article 5) — single documented gifts, no second traced.
- Search record of this run, November 2026.