Jimmy Dean : 1928-2010

In an Aug. 28, 2009, file photo, country singer and sausage icon Jimmy Dean is seen at his home in Virginia. Dean, a country music legend for his smash hit about a workingman hero, "Big Bad John," and an entrepreneur known for his sausage brand, died Sunday, June 13, 2010. He was 81.

In this 1959 file photo, Jimmy Dean entertains his fans who could not gain admission to a taping of his show "The Jimmy Dean Show" in the New York studio.

In this April 2, 1964 file photo, Jimmy Dean smiles while he gets ready for a taping of his show "The Jimmy Dean Show" in the New York studio.

This is the logo for the sausage brand that Jimmy dean and his brother Don founded. It was sold in 1984 to what is now the Sara Lee Corp.

In this Aug. 25, 2004 file photo, sausage entrepreneur Jimmy Dean poses with his wife, Donna Meade, at their home in Richmond, Va.

AP Photo/The Virginian-Pilot, Martin Smith-Rodden

Jimmy Dean, right, along with his wife Donna, holding their dog, "Tara", chats at the bar area of their party house "Casa Del Rio" during an interview at his Richmond-, Va. area estate on Nov. 20, 1999. The Deans co-wrote a song which was a finalist to become the new Virginia state song.