Chuck Kesey, founder of an Oregon-based natural foods business and brother to author and counterculture luminary Ken Kesey, died in Eugene, his family said. He was 87.

Chuck Kesey cofounded Springfield Creamery, the Eugene-based producer of Nancy’s Probiotic Foods, with his wife Sue, who died in August at age 86 .

“Our dad never stopped exploring. His mind was interested in so many pieces of life,” said his daughter, Sheryl Kesey-Thompson, who co-owns Springfield Creamery with her brother Kit.

“He believed that real, healthy food could make people’s lives better,” Kesey-Thompson added in a statement. “That was his true calling, and I think that is what he was most pleased to have had an impact on.”

Kesey-Thompson said her father believed so deeply in the product he used to say, “We a

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