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Article: Family of slain homeless man: He was loved
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- Bangor Daily News Bangor, ME
- Article date:
- November 5, 2009
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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 ...