Ralph Stayer, 92, bratwurst evangelist
Posted: Wednesday, June 27th, 2007 8:32 amMILWAUKEE, June 26 (AP) — Ralph F. Stayer, the founder of a Wisconsin sausage company that helped popularize bratwurst in the United States, died Sunday in Florida. He was 92.
He died in his sleep at a nursing home, his family said.
Mr. Stayer bought a butcher shop in 1945 and turned it into the million-dollar Johnsonville Sausage Company, said his son, Ralph C. Stayer, the company’s current chief executive. … Read full obituary
