Great actor and football player. Also, a genuinely nice guy, as were most of the people in that series. Any idea where he picked up mesothelioma? I thought that was a disease related to working with asbestos or smoking, neither of which Olsen did so far as I know.
As Olson was a Mormon, he likely didn’t smoke, but I’m not sure where he would have picked up the asbestos.
http://www.asbestos.net/news/merlin-olsen-files-mesothelioma-lawsuit-against-nbc-and-others.html
Apparently he did some drywall and manual labor as a child?