To many in Milwaukee and Wisconsin, Bob Uecker was the iconic voice of Milwaukee Brewers baseball for generations.
For others, like Tracy Tofte (Wells), he was her second dad.
Uecker played her father George Owens on the family sitcom, “Mr. Belvedere,” a show that aired on ABC in the mid to late 1980s.
Tofte, who played Heather Owens on “Mr. Belvedere,” was “absolutely heartbroken” upon learning that Uecker died on Thursday.
She posted a lengthy tribute to her TV dad, even noting a personal experience she had with Uecker just last month at his home in Menomonee Falls.
“I knew he was sick, which made the visit even more important to me,” Tofte wrote. “Even with a walker and on paid meds, he was cracking jokes and making me laugh.”
Making people laugh, she said, is what Uecker did all the time while on set back in the 1980s. He hadn’t changed.
“I’ll always treasure the memories from Mr. Belvedere – there were so many,” Tofte wrote. “Bob was the glue that held us together and kept us grounded. He never took anything too seriously, and his #1 goal was always to make us laugh.”
She recalled days spent on his boat on Lake Michigan, like so many others have, or seeing him at the ballpark whether it was in Los Angeles or Milwaukee.
“Bob had a rare gift of making everyone feel special,” Tofte wrote. “He appreciated everyone — no matter their status. He was a truly good human, inside and out.”
One of his other TV children also remembered Uecker.
“90 years and still gone too soon,” Brice Beckham, who played Uecker’s youngest son on the show, Wesley, wrote on Instagram, along with a series of photos representing Uecker’s well-traveled life. “Bob Uecker was one of a kind, the only person I know who had, not one, but two statues dedicated in his honor.
“He never failed to make us laugh and I count myself lucky to have called him “Dad” for those five formative years. We’ll miss him as he takes his seat ‘in the front row.’ “
Bob Uecker and the ‘Mr. Belvedere’ cast
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