Jerry Budrick, a former editor of the Amador Ledger Dispatch in Jackson, died July 24, 2022, the newspaper reports. He was 78 and had esophageal cancer.Budrick was editor of the weekly from 2008-2011. He recently had published a book about his 15 years at the restaurant Chez Panisse in Berkeley. His obituary notes that he “was a wordsmith with the largest vocabulary this side of the Mississippi and a Scrabble fanatic with an archive of Scrabble journals dating back to the 70s.”
In Memoriam: Jerry Budrick, 78
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