Jim Nabors, 87, dies at Diamond Head home

Hawaii friends of beloved entertainer Jim Nabors say he wasn’t far removed from the gentle, amiable television character, Gomer Pyle, that first brought him fame in the 1960s.
Nabors, a longtime Honolulu resident, died early Thursday morning at his Diamond Head home after several years of declining health. He was 87.
His husband, Stan Cadwallader, said Nabors was admitted to the emergency room at The Queen’s Medical Center on Nov. 22 with a case of shingles. He returned home for Than