[1] He defeated Arnold Schwarzenegger at the 1966[2] NABBA Mr. Universe (amateur) held in London.
[1] While not athletic during his youth, Yorton was in a life-threatening auto accident in high school.
On December 4, 2020, Shannon revealed on her social media both of her parents had died two weeks prior.
She wrote her father had discovered her mother dead from unknown causes, and he died from a heart attack a few days later.
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