Sad Anniversary: Bob Barker Collapses At Gravesite Of His Wife
Oct. 20 2017, Published 3:01 p.m. ET
Former Price Is Right host Bob Barker was overcome with emotion when he recently visited the grave of his late wife on an emotional anniversary. Click through RadarOnline.com’s gallery to see the sad photos.
Barker went to Forest Lawn Hollywood Hills cemetery, where his wife, Dorothy Jo Gideon, is buried.
Oct. 19 marks the thirty-sixth anniversary of her death.
Tragically, Gideon died of lung cancer, leaving her game show host husband distraught.
Barker held a 20-minute vigil at his late wife’s grave. “She was the love of his life,” a source told RadarOnline.com.
The 93-year-old game show star laid flowers and cleaned the gravesite.
He was so overcome with emotion that he collapsed in grief for Gideon, who he had been with since they were 15 years old.
Barker had help while spending time in the cemetery.
As RadarOnline.com reported, Barker has no fears about the end of his life. “He’s not afraid. He said, ‘When it’s my time, I’m ready to die,’” a friend revealed.
The aging Hollywood legend is growing frail. “Everyone’s praying for Bob, but his health is deteriorating rapidly,” the friend told RadarOnline.com. “We fear his final curtain could come any day.”
Barker never remarried after his partner of decades died.
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