Pizza Hut co-founder Frank Carney Death –Dead-Obituaries :Frank Carney has Died – Cause of Death Unknown.
Pizza Hut co-founder Frank Carney has died, according to a statement posted online on December 2. 2020.
Frank Carney, who co-founded the wildly successful Pizza Hut restaurant in Wichita with his brother, Dan Carney, has died at 82.
Sedgwick County Commission chairman Pete Meitzner shared the news during a public meeting Wednesday.
“This morning … we lost the passing of Frank Carney, who with him and his brother, Don, founded Pizza Hut and created incredible value for our community and worldwide, and my sympathy to Frank, I know he’s had a tough last few years and his family, and he’s a fantastic person and Dan is still with us,” Meitzner said during the meeting. “And my heartfelt condolences to Dan and to all the Carney family.”
Pizza Hut co-founder Frank Carney has died. He and his brother, Dan, started the small pizza restaurant in Wichita in 1958. By the early 1970s, it was one of the largest franchises in the world.
Tributes.
The following are some tributes posted on social media to honor the life and the legacy of the deceased.
RIP Frank Carney.
Frank Carney was diagnosed in 2009 with Alzheimer’s disease. The Carneys founded Pizza Hut in 1958, in a small, empty old storefront near Kellogg and Bluff, while they were students at what was then the University of Wichita.
