![]() ![]() ![]() Peete’s path from the streets of Detroit to the bean fields of Pahokee, Fla., to the lush greens of the PGA Tour was uniquely his. His wife of 23 years, Pepper Peete, talked briefly to an Atlanta Journal-Constitution reporter before hanging up. DEATH DREAM FOR THE MAN BEHIND THE LOCKER PROThe story of how Peete went from being a highly successful PGA Tour pro to dying virtually alone in Atlanta might never be fully told.Ĭalls to his children were not returned this week. When I left he nodded his head and gave me a fist bump. I just wanted to holler at him and see if he remembered me. “I went to see him for the last time last Saturday,” said friend and fellow golfer Carl Seldon. An official cause of death was not released, but several people close to him said he had at least two forms of cancer - pancreatic and lung. Peete, 71, died Wednesday morning in an Atlanta hospice. He set him up in the home of a friend, Pamela Harris, who was more direct in her assessment: “Warren found him in a house with no furniture, sleeping on a mattress on the floor and eating peanut butter out of a jar.” African-American golf legends Lee Elder, left, and Calvin Peete share a laugh as they talk with children at the East Lake Family YMCA in Atlanta during The Tour Championship at East Lake Golf Club in November 2005. ![]()
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