mary cowan , of edinburgh , passed away in november last year but her will revealed she asked for a bursary scheme to be set up in her name at the school where she had devoted years of her life to teaching primary school children .
ms cowan never married and worked and lived in edinburgh her whole adult life , retiring from her job at the college in 1981 .
she was raised with her brother martin in kirkcudbrightshire , where her family had lived for generations and ran a grocer shop .