Editing Junior Samples (section)

== Personal life and death ==
Samples was married to Grace Carrie Bolton (April 27, 1927 – July 9, 2015), and they had five children together. Grace occasionally used Bolden as her maiden name and it was an official alias in legal documents. Junior, whose weight periodically neared 400 pounds (180&nbsp;kg), was on ''Hee Haw'' for fourteen years, until he died of a [[myocardial infarction|heart attack]] in 1983 at the age of 57.<ref name=smptv>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=fVdWAAAAIBAJ&pg=5348%2C7696549 |work=Spokesman-Review |location=(Spokane, Washington) |agency=wire services |title=Junior Samples, TV comic, dies |date=November 14, 1983 |page=3}}</ref> His funeral was officiated by close friend Rev. Douglas Collins.<ref name="urlJunior Samples, 56, Is Dead - Regular on Hee Haw Show - Obituary ">{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1983/11/14/obituaries/junior-samples-56-is-dead-regular-on-hee-haw-show.html |title=Junior Samples, 56, Is Dead |work=[[The New York Times]] |access-date=2011-03-19 |date=1983-11-14 |archive-date=2012-06-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120625132512/http://www.nytimes.com/1983/11/14/obituaries/junior-samples-56-is-dead-regular-on-hee-haw-show.html |url-status=live }}</ref>