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Wayland Baptist, Llano Estacado Museum plan museum on singer-sausage maker Jimmy Dean
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Original Publication Date: May 27, 2014 12:56AM
Publication Updated: January 8, 2025 11:06PM
PLAINVIEW, Texas – Groundbreaking is planned for next month on a museum dedicated to the country singer and sausage mogul Jimmy Dean.
Wayland Baptist University and the Museum of the Llano Estacado will break ground June 24 on the Jimmy Dean Museum addition to the museum on the Wayland campus in Plainview, Dean’s hometown.
The Dean family contributed $1 million to the university in 2008 in what is the largest cash gift in school history. The museum will cost about $5 million to complete and will house memorabilia from Jimmy Dean’s personal collection. It will depict Dean’s life from its most beginnings in northeastern Plainview top his career in music, television and business.
A bronze statue of Dean will be delivered this week and will be moved to the museum entrance.
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