Jimmy Dean Piano-Shaped Tomb $350K

This is interesting: Country music legend and sausage king Jimmy Dean will be interred in a piano-shaped mausoleum on his property in rural Varina, VA., CMT.com said Wednesday.

Dean died of natural causes at his Richmond, VA. home on Sunday. He was 81.

Funeral services have been set for Monday at Grove Avenue Baptist Church in Richmond, after which Dean will be entombed in the $350,000 granite mausoleum he purchased several years ago. The 9-and-a-half-foot tomb will inscribed with a reference to Dean’s 1961 hit, “Big Bad John:” “Here lies one hell of a man.”

Since there is only room for one casket in the mausoleum, Jimmy’s widow — Donna Dean — says her late husband instructed her to “have me cremated and put me in your pocket“ if he passed on first. She still plans to be cremated and placed with the love of her life after she passes on.

“He was the most special human being I’ve ever known. He had the best wit of anyone I ever knew. We made each other laugh. He was the man of my dreams. I always dreamed of marrying a long, tall Texan, handsome, a man in the music industry who would understand what I did because I was an entertainer when I met him.“