Death and Burial
Bob Evans died in 2007 while being treated at the Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio, from complications of a stroke. He was recuperating from pneumonia when he suffered the fatal attack. Bob Evans is buried in Mound Hill Cemetery in Gallipolis, Ohio.
Upon learning of his death Ohio governor Ted Strickland remarked: "Bob Evans was a true original. His life's work was bringing the warmth, hospitality and good food of Ohio to rest of the nation. We here in Ohio are all proud of him and we are all deeply saddened by his passing."
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“For ‘tis not in mere death that men die most.”
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