Oscar Mayer Dead

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.

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.

Comments

[LeftRight]

I never realized that Oscar Mayer was a real person...... This is too bad. Well, we will always have our memories of the commercials and the wienermobile!

[KarateKid]

Oscar Mayer, in the late 1950s or early 1960s, once did a promotion where they included commemorative plastic coins of baseball players. I collected all of them, and in the 1980s boom era for collectibles, sold the collection for $3000. Thanks, Oscar, and R.I.P.

[mrsgm]

Thank you Oscar Mayer for proving all the health nuts WRONG!
95! WOW
RIP good man RIP

[sagebrush5]

How do you know he ate his products?

[bigsexyshaq]

Because he's old and old people are always honest and handpick everything in their companies. Duh.

[Harrier]

I still have one of the whistles he gave me decades ago. God bless

[socialtalker]

wow, i thought he had died 40 years ago!

[ColoradoDan]

We take solice in listening to the song ' What a Wienerful World' on this sad say.

Even Babe and Piglet are in mourning ... well, actually in a blanket.

[Mort]

I was thrilled when I got my OMW whistle, though I'm sure it drove my folks nuts.

It doesn't matter how many pig cheeks and lips are in them. A plate of Boston baked beans and franks can't be beat.

Rest in peace, Mr. Mayer

[Bitsko]

Kosher dogs rule.

[Bloggerrogr]

There's room enough in this great nation for OM and Kosher...

[Dystopic]

Homemade dogs rule them all

[CitizenFarmer]

That's racist

[BannedInBoston]

Wieners everywhere are in mourning....

[wonketteRAWKS]

Thanks for everything!

[endex05]

From my time living in Madison, I can still remember the stench the OM factory emanated... have they taken anti-pollution measures since then?

[KOisGod]

nice, it stinks on the way out too.

[HarrysLeSabre]

I met him while driving the Wienermobile in the late 80's. A pic of us stashed in a shoebox somewhere...

Fun job, nice guy.

RIP

[wordvarc]

"Oh I wish I was an Oscar Meyer wiener...then everyone would be in love with me!"

Condolences.

I wonder when he ate his last hot dog, how many he consumed per year, and the total number in his lifetime?

[SharpDressedMan]

This is the video that should have been part of the article.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNddW2xmZp8

[Bitsko]

Thanks! I remember that one very well, the one on this page not at all.

[Soundofthunder]

He can thank all those nitrates for elongating his life.

SOT