NASCAR champ Benny Parsons, 65
Posted: Friday, January 19th, 2007 11:33 amJanuary 17, 2007 — Benny Parsons, a popular champion auto racer who became a home-spun analyst for Nascar’s nationally televised races, died yesterday in Charlotte, N.C. He was 65 and lived in Ellerbe, N.C. … The cause was complications of lung cancer, according to Performance Racing Network, with which Parsons had a weekly radio show. Parsons learned he had cancer of the left lung in July and had been hospitalized in Charlotte since Dec. 26.
“I smoked my last cigarette way back in 1978,” he told Nascar.com in July, “and since then I’ve hated being around smoking.”
He continued to call races for NBC and TNT during his treatment. … Read full obituary
