Iowan Frank Fritz died 1 year ago. He still has not been laid to rest.

Annette Oberlander Willows hasn’t been able to emotionally leave the hospital room where her best friend and reality TV star, Frank Fritz, died a year ago.

She’s still there — spiritually. Around that bed, amongst the friends that grew to be Fritz’s family. Holding his hand as the complications from a stroke that exacerbated his severe Crohn’s disease finally became too much for his body.

“I won't be able to get any peace until we can bury Frank and his mother,” both of whom were cremated, Willows says.

“You can't move forward when he's not been laid to rest.”

And he can’t be buried, she said, while Fritz’s will is being contested in court by his birth father, Bill Fritz.

In February, Bill Fritz, who lives in Texas, filed a petition to set aside “American Pickers” co-host Frank Fritz’