Oscar G. Mayer Jr Dies

Oscar G. Mayer Jr Dies. On Monday, July 6th, 2009, Oscar G. Mayer Jr., former chairman of Oscar Mayer Foods died at the age of 95. He died of old age at Hospice Care in Fitchburg, Wisconsin.

Oscar Mayer Info

Mayer’s father, Oscar G. Mayer Sr. died in 1965.
Mayer’s grandfather Oscar F. Mayer, died in 1955.
In 1977, Oscar G. Mayer Jr. retired as the chairman of the Oscar Mayer Foods company, just after it reached it’s first $1 billion year. Oscar Mayer Foods was then sold to General Foods, which then became a unit of Kraft Food.

What Baby Boomer hasn’t eaten something from Oscar Mayer’s or sung the Oscar Mayer’s jingle??

For generations, children throughout the country knew how to spell this famous hot dog and bologna name…even before they could even write or spell their own.

The popular jingles such as “My bologna has a first name, it’s O-S-C-A-R” and “I wish I were an Oscar Mayer wiener” has appeared in television and radio ads since the 1960’s.

Oscar G. Mayer Jr Dies but not before he spent a life time keeping the mane “Oscar Mayer” a household name.

Every few years, Oscar Mayer hosted a sing that jingle competition, a scholarship program where kids enter to become the next Oscar Mayer wiener kid and receive a college scholarship of up to $20,000 and the opportunity to be on TV.

Oscar G. Mayer Jr Dies and his last request was that they did not bring the Oscar Mayer Mobile to the funeral. He thought that it would draw too much attention and he wanted a small private ceremony. All other Oscar Mayer funerals had the Oscar Mayers Wienermobile.