Wally Amos pictured in 2007 in his residence workplace within the Lanikai part of Kailua, Hawaii. Lucy Pemoni/AP conceal caption
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Wally Amos, the entrepreneur behind the Well-known Amos cookie enterprise, has died. He was 88 years previous.
His explanation for loss of life was dementia, his kids mentioned in a press release.
“Together with his Panama hat, kazoo, and boundless optimism, Well-known Amos was an ideal American success story, and a supply of Black pleasure,” mentioned kids Sarah, Michael, Gregory and Shawn Amos.
“Our dad taught us the worth of laborious work, believing in ourselves, and chasing our desires.”
Amos devoted his life to creating the right cookie and advised NPR again in 2008 that the key ingredient in his world-famous baked items was love.
“I feel it is necessary to like what you do as a result of that love is transferred to what you do, and it turns it into one thing completely unbelievable,” he mentioned on the time.
Whereas most individuals right now will affiliate the Well-known Amos model with the yellow-boxed cookies that line the grocery retailer snack aisle, Amos’ imaginative and prescient began in 1975 as a brick-and-mortar cookie store in Los Angeles.
Utilizing his aunt’s do-it-yourself recipe, the cookies have been a success and enterprise boomed. However after declining gross sales within the late Eighties, Amos in the end offered the corporate.
He later moved to Hawaii the place he would proceed baking his well-known confections.
The household mentioned Amos died at residence peacefully along with his spouse, Carol, by his facet. They instructed that in lieu of sending flowers, individuals may donate to the Alzheimer’s Affiliation in his reminiscence.
“We additionally know he would adore it when you had a chocolate chip cookie right now.”
