20. He Was Born In Florida
Bob Ross was born in 1942 in Dayton Beach Florida. His father, a Cherokee carpenter and his mother, a white waitress, raised him in Orlando, Florida. Ross dropped out of school after the 9th grade to join his father in the carpentry business but eventually enlisted in the US Air Force which moved him out of Florida. He spent a good deal of his later adult life back in Florida, and his remains are interred in Gotha, Florida.
