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Donna Dean Sings!
......""Donna Meade Dean, wife of Jimmy, has written a song to honor Richmond Icon Thomas Cannon, a song she hopes can raise money for survivors of Hurricane Katrina"
......."Cannon, a former postal clerk, gained national fame for a lifetime of giving away about $150,000 in small sums to people he felt deserved a little help. He died on July 2, 2005. Dean, who put her budding musical career on hold when she married singer and sausage magnate Jimmy Dean, thought a song might be just the thing to commemorate Cannon."
........"She never met Cannon", she says, but "loved his philosophies. Some people thought he was offbeat, and I thought he was brilliant" . . .

Jimmy Dean ~ Hall of Fame!
......Jimmy Dean was inducted into the Texas Country Hall of  Fame in Carthage, Texas, in August of 2005. He and Donna performed on stage for the event, attended by over 1,000 fans.

Jimmy and Donna Dean ~ Authors
.....Dean sits in his living room. eyes as wide as a 5-year-old boy on Christmas morning, the 76-year-old-Texas-born businessman and entertainer entertains himself quite well, thank you very much, right here in the Commonwealth. "There's something about this damned place." Dean says . . . .

What a story Dean has . . read all about it in "Thirty Years of Sausage, Fifty Years of Ham : Jimmy Deans Own Story ",
co-written with his wife of almost 13 years, Donna Meade Dean.

"If we can get some young people to read it and say, If I try, I can do it. If I give it a shot, If I work at it, there's a way!"
 Dean said . . . "Getting knocked down is part of life in this country - but getting up is also."

Dean credits his mother, Ruth, with instilling immovable values in him.

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