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Country Music Legend & Sausage Man Jimmy Dean Dies at 81
Posted: Mon Jun 14, 2010 3:32 am
by 308Mike
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Country Music Legend Jimmy Dean Dies at 81
Published June 13, 2010
| Associated Press
RICHMOND, Va. -- Jimmy Dean, a country music legend for his smash hit about a workingman hero, "Big Bad John," and an entrepreneur known for his sausage brand, has died. He was 81.
His wife, Donna Meade Dean, says her husband died at 7:54 p.m. Sunday at their Henrico County, Va., home, south of Richmond.
She tells The Associated Press that he had some health problems but was still functioning well, so his death came as a shock.
Born in 1928, Dean was raised in poverty in Plainview, Texas, and dropped out of high school after the ninth grade. But he went on to a successful entertainment career in the '50s and '60s.
In 1969, Dean went into the sausage business, starting the Jimmy Dean Meat Co. He sold the company to Sara Lee Corp. in 1984.
Re: Country Music Legend & Sausage Man Jimmy Dean Dies at 81
Posted: Mon Jun 14, 2010 3:46 am
by AZMARK
R.I.P. Jimmy
Re: Country Music Legend & Sausage Man Jimmy Dean Dies at 81
Posted: Mon Jun 14, 2010 4:10 am
by mekender
Ima make some sausage in his memory this weekend.
Re: Country Music Legend & Sausage Man Jimmy Dean Dies at 81
Posted: Mon Jun 14, 2010 11:32 am
by Fivetoes
His sausage may be good but it doesn't have enough fat in it to fry an egg.
RIP Jimmy.
Re: Country Music Legend & Sausage Man Jimmy Dean Dies at 81
Posted: Mon Jun 14, 2010 5:13 pm
by Bob K
Had a couple of his breakfast biscuits this morning. Love 'em.
Requiesicat in Pace.
Re: Country Music Legend & Sausage Man Jimmy Dean Dies at 81
Posted: Tue Jun 15, 2010 1:28 am
by Rich
Hope my breakfast sausages don't start tasting funny in the next few weeks.
(Note; I usually start the day with a JD sausage, egg and cheese croissant or muffin, with orange juice and coffee.)
Re: Country Music Legend & Sausage Man Jimmy Dean Dies at 81
Posted: Tue Jun 15, 2010 1:50 am
by randy
Rich wrote:Hope my breakfast sausages don't start tasting funny in the next few weeks.
Just don't get the Soylent Green special edition breakfast sandwiches.
Re: Country Music Legend & Sausage Man Jimmy Dean Dies at 81
Posted: Tue Jun 15, 2010 3:41 am
by Bob K
IIRC, "Soylent Green" was Edward G. Robinson's last movie. And it was pretty awful.