Fritz passed away Monday night at the age of 60. His friend and former “American Pickers” co-host Mike Wolfe shared the news on Instagram and Facebook. “It’s with a broken heart that I share with all of you that Frank passed away last night,” Wolfe posted. “I’ve [known] Frank for more then half my life and what you’ve seen on TV has always been what I have seen, a dreamer who was just as sensitive as he was funny.
The same off camera as he was on, Frank had a way of reaching the hearts of so many by just being himself.“Before the show we would take off together to places we never knew existed with no destination in mind and just the shared passion to discover something interesting and historic,” Wolfe added. “We’ve been on countless trips and shared so many miles.” He concluded, “I feel blessed that I was there by his side when he took one last journey home.
I love you buddy and will miss you so much. I know you’re in a better place.” A rep for Fritz, Bill Stankey, told TMZ that the star died from the effects of a stroke he had in 2022.Fritz passed away in a Quad Cities hospice facility on the Iowa-Illinois border and was surrounded by friends, including Wolfe, according to the outlet.Though Wolfe did not disclose Fritz’s cause of death, the star had a number of health problems in recent years.
He had Crohn’s disease and underwent back surgery after filming his final season of “Pickers” in 2021 (a procedure that left him with 185 stitches and two rods in his spine), and was hospitalized for a stroke in 2022.
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