INVERNESS, Ill. – Wherever Connie Payton goes, people end up in tears and needing a hug. Little more than a week ago, she was the keynote speaker at a cancer benefit in Illinois when a 78-yea… ...

Walter Payton strides past the living room, his flipflop sandals smacking against his heels, a quick, ... can you come in and talk for just a little?” his wife, Connie, ...

Former Bears Pro Bowl cornerback Charles "Peanut" Tillman and Connie Payton, Walter Payton's wife, reflect on the passing of Bears matriarch Virginia McCaskey Top Democrat Schumer backs Republican ...

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Holmes and Payton's executive assistant, Ginny Quirk, recall receiving suicidal calls at all hours during the mid-1990s, and Pearlman reports Payton was living apart from his wife Connie and ...

(CBS)-- Six days until Super Bowl 50, one of the guests heading to the big game is Connie Payton, the wife of Bears legend Walter Payton. Payton was one of the most popular players in NFL history ...

Payton had been living apart from his wife, Connie, ... Payton's family and the Walter and Connie Payton Foundation acknowledged that "Walter, like all of us, wasn't perfect." ...

Walter Payton was in perpetual motion — the tailback was always most comfortable that way. He traveled about four days a week for appearances, ... “Walter was a loner,” his wife, Connie, says.

Payton had been living separately from his wife, Connie, since his retirement in 1988, but did not want to release that information publicly to save his public image.

No artifice. Just her own brand of “Sweetness.” To most people, Connie Payton is a “Who?” Even non-football fans can usually place Walter, but his wife of nine years has seemed content to ...