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.
I wish I were an Oscar Meyer wiener, that is what I’d truly like to be…..
OMG. NOOOOO! How do I get tickets to the funeral? I hope the airlines put on extra flights. OMG OMG OMG. I’ve loved that man’s baloney since I was a preteen little boy. I wonder if they’ll unshackle his kids for the funeral? OMG. I understand his brother Ptomaine Mayer will make yet another attempt to revive his career by singing “My Baloney Has A First Name”. Liz Taylor just CAN’T miss this one, can she? They say Brooke Shields is going to do a demonstration of how to do a perfect wiener. Oh the humanity. OMG I wish I was on Oscar Mayer’s wiener.
BTW – That picture is racist. FIRST!!!
DJ. Says you: “OMG I wish I was on Oscar Mayer’s wiener”??? Lucy, you got some `splainin to do!
Umm, looks like a misprint…Jonco needs to hire a new typesetter. Dunno.
If he was 95, I guarantee that was not his weiner on display. Maybe he’ll be buried in the weinermobile. I wonder how old Geraldine is?
so did they sing that song at the funeral