Bob Hope-Death

 

Hope had premature obituaries on two separate occasions. In 1998, a prepared obituary by The Associated Press was inadvertently released on the Internet, prompting Hope's death to be announced in the U.S. House of Representatives.

 

In 2003 he was among several famous figures whose pre-written obituaries were published on CNN's website because of a lapse in password protection.

 

In 2000, Hope's health steadily declined and he was hospitalized several times before his death. In June 2000, he spent nearly a week in a California hospital after being hospitalized for gastrointestinal bleeding.

 

In August 2001, he spent close to two weeks in the hospital recovering from pneumonia.

 

On July 27, 2003, Bob Hope died at his home in Toluca Lake at 9:28 p.m. According to the Soledad O'Brien interview with Hope's grandson Zach Hope, when asked on his deathbed where he wanted to be buried, Hope told his wife, "Surprise me." He was interred in the Bob Hope Memorial Garden at San Fernando Mission Cemetery in Los Angeles, where his mother is also buried.

 

After Hope's death, many newspaper cartoons worldwide featured some variation of Bing Crosby welcoming Bob Hope into heaven or his work for the USO.