RIP: Bob Kevoian ( of ‘The Bob & Tom Show’ fame )

INDIANAPOLIS — Bob Kevoian woke up Thursday morning with a smile on his face, as he usually did. He had years and years of practice laughing in the mornings.

Kevoian had plans for this weekend, which included a possible trip to Disney World. He’d been battling cancer for three years, but he wasn’t stopping. He was making it through the good days and those really tough days and, of course, he was doing it all with humor.

But Thursday night, Kevoian took a sudden turn for the worse. And by Friday at 5:30 p.m., his family knew the end was near.

His wife, Becky, and three sons were in the room with Kevoian, playing his favorite album, The Beatles’ “Abbey Road,” Side 2. Then, the song “Golden Slumbers” came on.

“Which was Bob’s favorite. They were all singing it out loud,” said Tom Griswold, Kevoian’s longtime co-host on "The Bob & Tom Show. “And Bob literally took his last breath when the song (was ending). It sounds like something out of a movie.”

Kevoian was 75.