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	Homeless Man Leaves Behind Surprise: $4 Million

EddieIsSteady

8-2-2009 8:10 AM

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8-2-2009 9:53 AM

debbyski

This does not surprise me. I had a Great Uncle who walked to work every day, was extremely frugal, and left a multi-million dollar estate.

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color:#33ff99;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/d28122a5-196f-45b4-b1d1-0afc56fc5967/1A3FAB88-3D55-4CAD-B91D-372887D02055/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=111091624&sc=fb&cc=fp" href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=111091624&sc=fb&cc=fp" style="font-size: 11px;">www.npr.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=111091624&sc=fb&cc=fp">Homeless Man Leaves Behind Surprise: $4 Million</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=111091624&sc=fb&cc=fp">A few weeks ago, a new one made it to air: "Support for NPR comes from the estate of Richard Leroy Walters, whose life was enriched by NPR, and whose bequest seeks to encourage others to discover public radio."</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=111091624&sc=fb&cc=fp"><P>An article in the online newsletter of a Catholic mission in Phoenix revealed that Walters died two years ago at the age of 76. He left an estate worth about $4 million. Along with the money he left for NPR, Walters also left money for the mission. </P><P>But something distinguished Walters from any number of solvent, well-to-do Americans with seven-figure estates: He was homeless. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=111091624&sc=fb&cc=fp"><DIV class="bucketwrap photo300" id="res111091625"><IMG width="300" alt="Richard Walters custom" title="Richard Walters custom" class="img300 enlarge" src="http://media.npr.org/assets/news/2009/07/27/walters_custom.jpg?s=2" /><DIV class="captionwrap enlarge"><A href="javascript:alert('This link contains javascript. Please visit the clip source to follow this link.');" target="_self" title="Enlarge Image" alt="Enlarge" class="enlargeicon"></A><P>Richard Walters, a homeless man who lived in Phoenix, died two years ago. And he left behind a surprise: a $4 million estate. <SPAN class="creditwrap"><SPAN class="credit">Courtesy Rita Belle</SPAN></SPAN></P></DIV></DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=111091624&sc=fb&cc=fp"><DIV class="bucket"><P>He just gave up all of the material things that we think we have to have. You know, I don't know how we gauge happiness. What's happy for you might not be happy for me. I never heard him complain.</P></DIV><DIV class="bucketbottom"></DIV><P class="byline">- Rita Belle</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/1A3FAB88-3D55-4CAD-B91D-372887D02055/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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