Death
Abbott suffered from epilepsy throughout his life. In the early 1960s, he suffered the first in a series of strokes. In 1972, he broke his hip. Abbott died of cancer at the age of 78 on April 24, 1974, at his home in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles. His wife Betty died on September 12, 1981 at the age of 79.
When Groucho Marx was asked about Abbott shortly after his death, his response was that Abbott was "the greatest straight man ever."
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“I shall die as my fathers died, and sleep as they sleep; even so.
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A little soul for a little bears up this corpse which is man.
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For there is no God found stronger than death; and death is a sleep.”
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