Jimmy Dean, Country Star And Sausage King, Dead at 81

Country Music Hall of Famer was a singer, TV host and actor before launching Jimmy Dean Meat.By Gil Kaufman Jimmy Dean Photo: Steve Helber/ AP Photos Country singer Jimmy Dean, whose career as a storyteller was equaled later in life by his success as a sausage pitchman, died at his home in Varina, Virginia, on Sunday night at the age of 81. According to CNN, the Country Music Hall of Famer apparently died of natural causes. Though later in life his name was most familiar for his famou...

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