Amy Roloff, a star of the show Little People, Big World, has lost her father, Gordon Knight. He died at the age of 97 in early October. Jacob Roloff, Amy’s grandson, was the first to share the news about Gordon’s passing on Instagram. He posted about his grandpa and included several pictures of him. Jacob mentioned that it had been three weeks since his grandpa died and that he hadn’t fully processed the loss yet. He expressed his childhood wish to visit his grandparents in Michigan.
Gordon Knight, originally from Michigan, had eleven grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren. He worked as an engineer for Ford Motor Company and served during the Korean War. In his Instagram post, Jacob shared that he would miss his grandpa greatly but was thankful to have visited him each summer over the last four years.
Amy often talked about her father on social media, including in her response to Jacob’s post. She agreed with Jacob’s sentiments about missing their dad and shared her happiness about the memories they created as a family. Both Amy and Jacob appeared regularly on Little People, Big World, which started in 2006 on TLC and ran for nearly twenty years, featuring around 400 episodes that followed their family’s daily lives. The series finale was broadcast in 2024. A memorial service for Gordon Knight is scheduled for early January at the North Lake United Methodist Church in Michigan.
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Source: popculture.com, by Anthony Farris