Larry Gold, Upper Valley pizza-making icon for 40 years, dies at 68
EL PASO, Texas -- A Borderland pizza-making fixture has died at age 68.
Family confirmed to ABC-7 the death of Larry Gold, longtime owner of Hello Pizza in El Paso's Upper Valley.
Gold died in his sleep of what's believed to be natural causes.
He operated Hello Pizza for nearly 40 years in the River Run Plaza at 1071 Country Club Road.
The pizzeria owner boasted all of his ingredients came fresh from his native Brooklyn, New York - where Gold was born and raised.
His family says the future of the Hello Pizza restaurant hasn't yet been determined.
Funeral services for Gold are pending.
