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FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) - FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) - The long-time owner of Coney Island, Russ Choka, passed away Friday night. He was 88. He had owned and operated the downtown restaurant for more than 50 years.
His daughter, Kathy Choka, said her father went to the hospital early last week. Doctors let him to go home Friday morning, and then died that night from cardiac arrest.
Kathy Choka said many people were shocked to hear the news.
" They can't believe Russ Choka's dead because he was bigger than life," she said Sunday at Coney Island. "They say, 'I never thought Russ Choka would die.' See, I always thought he would die here. He called himself the Iron Man. It was like, Russ Choka....88 years old, but still willing to take on the world."
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