EDMOND, Okla. -- Troy Smith Sr., the founder of Sonic, is dead at the age of 87.Smith founded Top Hat in 1953 in Shawnee; it later became Sonic, America's Drive-in.Source & More: koco.com (http://www.koco.com/news/21444273/detail.html)

rip :(

I did not know this. Sometimes when I look at the title of this thread it looks like it says Sonic Drive-In found dead instead of founder dead.