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. Homer Groening Obit

NPR
Published March 18, 1996 at 10:00 PM MST

Homer Groening (Grane-ing), the namesake of the cartoon character Homer Simpson, died last Friday. he was 76 years old. Mr. Groening was a Portland filmaker and advertising man. But in recent he better known for being the father of cartoonist Matt Groening creator of the FOX program the Simpsons.

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