Nick Benedict, ‘Days of Our Lives’ and ‘All My Children’ alum, dead at 76
nypost.comNick Benedict, a soap opera actor who was on “Days of Our Lives,” “All My Children,” and “The Young and the Restless,” has died.
He was 76 years old. Barbara Ferrante, the owner of Jakes’s Steakhouse in Tehachapi, California, where Benedict’s wife Ginger works as a bartender, confirmed the news to Fox News Digital. “Nick Benedict’s birthday was July 14.
He went to be with the Lord this day. Please pray for Ginger,” a Facebook post from Jake’s Steakhouse said. A fundraising page organized before his death said Ginger had taken a leave of absence from the restaurant after he underwent emergency spinal cord surgery and was admitted to hospice. “He is paralyzed from the neck down,” the post said, adding that the couple had been married for 22 years and live in Arizona while Ginger travels back and forth to California.
The couple received plenty of condolences on social media and on the fundraising page. One person wrote, “We have known Ginger and Nick since moving to Bear Valley 19 years ago.
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