Siouxland icon Bob Roe has died

SIOUX CITY (KTIV) - An icon of the Siouxland community has passed away. Bob Roe, known for his popular eateries and community involvement has died at the age of 85.

Roe started working as an ice cream maker at his father’s dairy following graduation from Morningside College.

A long wait to get a pizza for his children led him to start a pizza business. In 1977 he converted a dairy on West 4th Street into “West Side Pizza,” which was the beginning of his small group of restaurants and pizza businesses.

In 1984 his oldest daughter connected with the person who made the buffalo wings at the famous Anchor Bar in Buffalo, New York. Roe once told KTIV’s Larry Wentz they sold up to 5,000 wings a night during “Wing’s Wednesday” at his “Point After” restaurant. It was at the “Point After” in 2012 that Roe met with a famous visitor, President Barack Obama.

Roe was committed to the community and sponsored nearly everything from the Little League Teams to the NAIA national tournaments that have been played in Sioux City for years.

”I think about, from the NAIA perspective, I think about that back room and it’s a shrine. It’s a shrine and he has their photos up and he has autographs of them and he has uniforms of them. And that’s not just basketball, it’s softball, volleyball, all of these teams that went through Bob Roe’s Point After. I can remember so many times we would talk to teams coming through Sioux City and they’d say, ‘Well I’ve been to Bob Roe’s,’” said GPAC Commissioner Corey Westra about Roe’s commitment to the community.

In 2001, Roe was honored for his longstanding community service with a street named after him, “Bob Roe Way.”

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