ContraCostaTimes.com | 07/05/2005 | 'Poor man's philanthropist' Thomas Cannon dies: "'Poor man's philanthropist' Thomas Cannon dies
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Thomas Cannon, a retired Richmond, Va., postal worker who lived much of his life on the edge of poverty so he could give away a portion of his modest income to those in need, died July 2 of colon cancer at Richmond Community Hospital. He was 79.
The self-described poor man's philanthropist, he gave away more than $150,000 over the past 33 years, mostly in thousand-dollar checks, to people he read about in the Richmond Times-Dispatch who were experiencing hard times or who had been unusually kind or courageous."
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