Sad. Surprised he's in his 80's too.

Lost touch with that program ages ago, think after Alice became a great-great grandmother. Alice and Tom had Addie, Tommy, Billy, Mickey and Marie, and Addie had Julie and Hope before the car accident, and Julie had David, who had their fifth generation baby with his cousin's fiancee. Meanwhile, Julie married her mother's widower, and they adopt her half-sister until her stepfather/husband unknowingly had a baby with the housekeeper, who is forced into marriage with his business partner.

Now they're all gone except for Marie, who happily joined the convent after finding out that she was engaged to her brother Tommy after he had the plastic surgery from shell shock. Then he went upstairs and never came back down for breakfast, sort of like the forgotten elder brother on Happy Days. Think the same thing happened on QVC, too.