legacy." Utah athletic director Dr. Chris Hill said of Majerus upon his passing, "Rick left a lasting legacy at the University of Utah, not only for his incredible success and the national prominence he brought to our basketball program, but also for the tremendous impact he made on the young men who were fortunate enough to play on his teams." Personal Majerus's father, Raymond, died of a heart attack at 63 in 1987. Raymond was a former secretary-treasurer of the United Auto Workers. Majerus was devoted to his mother, Alyce, until her death in August 2011, after initially being diagnosed with cancer in 1987. His mother would take factory work to afford to buy her children Christmas presents. Rick affectionately called her Rosie the Riveter. Majerus was married for two years in the mid-1980s and dated the same woman the last 25 years of his life. "He's done so much for basketball at Marquette and all through the state of Wisconsin," Chicago Bulls coach Jim Boylan said of his longtime friend. "For me personally, he's always been there. He's one of those guys who, if you don't see Rick for a while and when something was going wrong and you needed help, boom, he'd be there. He'd basically give you the shirt off his back, if that's what you needed." After undergoing septuple-bypass open-heart surgery at age 41, Majerus quipped: "They did seven bypasses on me—one for each of the major food groups." In 2015, Majerus's sisters, on behalf of the family, donated $1 million to Marquette University. The donation founded the Rick Majerus Endowed Scholarship, which will help first-generation students in the Helen Way Klingler College of Arts and Sciences. His sister Jodi said, "knowing my mom and dad and the importance they placed on education, and knowing Rick and how he looked at life in general, it feels like a natural thing to do." The Majerus Family Foundation also donated $2 million to the Huntsman Cancer Institute in Salt Lake City toward construction of a children's research center. The Foundation also hosts annual dinners for the homeless in Milwaukee on the birthdays of Majerus and each of his parents. "It's funny, sometimes you get around these coaching lifer guys and you think all they know, all they read, is basketball," said Doc Rivers, of Majerus. "You got around Rick and you'd find this extremely well-read, intelligent and political