Still reeling from the shock of Michael Jackson's death, Lugubrious Drollery has just received the following sad news:MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Oscar G. Mayer, retired chairman of the Wisconsin-based meat processing company that bears his name, has died at the age of 95.Even more disturbing is the fact that one of the current fleet of Wienermobiles passed through my hometown recently and I missed it.
Mayer's wife, Geraldine, said he died of old age Monday age at Hospice Care in Fitchburg.
He was the third Oscar Mayer in the family that founded Oscar Mayer Foods, which was once the largest private employer in Madison. His grandfather, Oscar F. Mayer, died in 1955 and his father, Oscar G. Mayer Sr., died in 1965.
Mayer retired as chairman of the board in 1977 at age 62 soon after the company recorded its first $1 billion year. The company was later sold to General Foods and is now a business unit of Kraft.
Mayer's first wife, Rosalie, died in 1998. He married Geraldine Fitzpatrick in 1999.
Mr. Mayer requested that there be no Wienermobile in his funeral procession. More's the pity.
2 comments:
Oh....he should have had the wiener mobile in the procession at least. Maybe he took himself too seriously..
As stated above, "Mayer retired as chairman of the board in 1977 at age 62 soon after the company recorded its first $1 billion year." Seems to me wienies been berry berry good to him, and the least he could do would be to include a Wienermobile in his funeral.
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