Sport present icon Bob Barker’s grave lastly has a gravestone — 13 months after he handed away on the age of 99!
The easy grave marker reads “Robert W. Barker, 1923-2023.”
A single pink rose was positioned on the gravestone as a tribute. The Value Is Proper host was buried at celeb-favorite Forest Garden Memorial Cemetery, subsequent to his spouse, Dorothy Jo, who handed away from lung most cancers on the age of 57 in 1981.
His resting place shouldn’t be removed from the place late Buddies star Matthew Perry is buried.
In keeping with his dying certificates, Bob’s explanation for dying was Alzheimer’s illness.
Though he was a family title for many years, because of his run on the present from 1972 to 2007, his final want was that buddies, household and his longtime companion Nancy Burnet not maintain a funeral or memorial service.
“He simply felt that needs to be one thing very personal,” his publicist Roger Neal defined. “So we’re simply following his needs.”
The 19-time Daytime Emmy winner left a lot of his $70 million property to animal rights organizations, a trigger he lengthy championed.
“Bob’s love of animals was well-known all through his lifetime, so this shouldn’t come as a shock,” an insider solely tells In Contact.
