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- Chuck Kesey died at age 87 on November 6.
- He co-founded the company that later became Nancy's Probiotic Foods, which introduced the first probiotic yogurt sold commercially in the United States in 1970.
- Ken Kesey, Chuck's brother, was a novelist and counterculture icon known for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and for popularizing LSD.
- Nancy's Probiotic Foods now produces about 80 cultured products, including yogurt, cottage cheese, and kefir.
