The TV legend requested “not to have a funeral or memorial service. He just felt that should be something very private. So we’re just following his wishes. He wanted the burial to be private.”…
Vivian Kwarm | New York Daily Newsare honoring his last wishes following his death, which included not having a funeral.shared with Daily News. ”He just felt that should be something very private. So we’re just following his wishes. He wanted the burial to be private.”,” Barker will be laid to rest next to his wife Dorothy Jo Barker, which was also his desire. She died in 1981 of lung cancer.
in his honor captioned, “There hasn’t been a day on set that I didn’t think of Bob Barker and thank him. I will carry his memory in my heart forever. #RIPBobBarker We love you.” ”Barker would sit on the edge of the stage and talk to the audience before they left and during the commercial breaks. He really cared about the viewers. When you saw people run on stage and give him a hug or give him a kiss, that was real. That was genuine.” They’re characteristics he embodied until his final days, which Neal describes as “peaceful.”
”They’ve been together since 1983, she was in charge of everything for Barker. She took such excellent care of him all these years. Even the last years as he was getting well into his 90s, she really made sure she had the best of everything.”
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