What is the correct spelling of the name of retired chairman of Oscar Meyer foods?
Oscar G. Mayer, retired chairman of the Madison-based meat processing company that bears his name, has died at the age of 95. His wife Geraldine said he died from complications of old age. He was the third Oscar Mayer in the family that founded Oscar Mayer Foods, which once was Madison’s largest private employer. 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, now a division of Kraft Foods. Mayer’s first wife, Rosalie, died in 1998. In 1999, he married Geraldine Fitzpatrick. Public visitations for Mayer are scheduled from 4 to 7 p.m. Thursday and Friday at Cress Funeral Home at 3610 Speedway Road in Madison. The family will hold a private funeral on Saturday. Mayer died Monday at Hospice Care in Fitchburg. Sources:
