Casey Kasem, a disc jockey best remembered as the long-time original host of radio's syndicated America's Top 40 as well as being the original voice of Shaggy from various incarnations of the Scooby Doo animated television series, passed away on Sunday at a Gig, Washington hospital at age 82.
Mr. Kasem had Lewy's body dementia, which is a progressive disease of the body's neurological and muscle cells.
In his final months, Casey had been at the center of a family legal battle over the terms of his passing, pitting his actress wife Jean against his three adult offspring from a previous marraige. It was Jean who removed her husband from a Santa Monica, California nursing home on May 7 and moved him to Washington State so that he could stay with friends. By court order, he was moved to the hospital on June 1.
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