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How George Foreman Came to Be Buried in Sioux City, Iowa
The family said the eight-foot monument was installed last week and thanked city officials and residents for helping honor Foreman’s burial wishes.
- On Thursday, April 16, 2026, the family of late heavyweight boxing champion George Foreman visited a recently added monument at Logan Park Cemetery in Sioux City, Iowa, marking the one-year anniversary of his burial.
- Foreman first discovered the region during a 1988 trip through the scenic Loess Hills, where the unique landscape made a lasting impression, prompting his specific request to be laid to rest in Iowa.
- The two-time heavyweight champion, who died March 21, 2025, at age 76, rose to fame winning Olympic gold in 1968 before becoming an entrepreneur known for the George Foreman Grill, which sold more than 100 million units.
- During Thursday's visit, family members hosted a news conference to publicly thank Sioux City Mayor Bob Scott and the local community for facilitating the private interment and supporting the monument's recent installation.
- The cemetery overlooks the Loess Hills, which line the river along the Iowa border for 200 miles, providing a scenic final resting place in an upper Midwest city of nearly 87,000 residents.
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George Foreman buried in Sioux City; family says he always remembered his only visit there nearly 40 years ago
The late boxing great George Foreman lies buried in a cemetery in the northwestern corner of Iowa — a place he has no connection to outside of a lone visit to the region nearly 40 years ago. Foreman died March 21, 2025, at the age of 76 in Houston and was buried in Logan Park Cemetery at Sioux City, Iowa, a month later, city officials confirmed. Foreman’s family returned Thursday to his burial site, holding a news conference with Sioux City Mayo…
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