Article: Family of slain homeless man: He was loved

BANGOR - Clyde Worster was nicknamed "Pudge," and he was called that so often by his family that his given name seems strange to them.

Pudge was a homeless man living in the Bangor area who drank too much, his family said, and who died at the hands of a fellow homeless man on April 27, 2008, reportedly after a fight over beer.

The man who admitted to killing him will be sentenced today in Penobscot County Superior Court.

Worster's relatives, who live for the most part in the Lincoln area, said they want people to know Pudge chose to be homeless, but that didn't affect their love for him or lessen the pain of losing him.

"He had a big family," sister Pat Worster said recently during a family ...

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