Wallace “Wally” Amos, the entrepreneur and founder of Famous Amos cookies who later became a children’s literary advocate, died on Tuesday at the age of 88. “With his Panama hat, kazoo, and boundless optimism, Famous Amos was a great American success story, and a source of Black pride,” said a statement from his children, Sarah, Michael, Gregory and Shawn Amos.
On Tuesday, Amos died at his home in Honolulu with his wife, Carol, at his side, his children said. He died from complications with dementia. Amos created the Famous Amos cookie empire and opened his bakery in 1975 on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles, where he sold bite-sized chocolate chip cookies, according to the company’s website, using an original family recipe and high quality ingredients. Amos said the fame never really mattered much to him. “Being famous is highly overrated anyway,” Amos told the Associated Press in 2007.
His cookies, combined with a quart of ice-cold milk, were a stoner's (me) dream. Juss' sayin'...
Now, following normal leftist rules, his name needs to be removed from his company.
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