Death
McQueen died at age 84 on December 22, 1995 at Augusta Regional Medical Center in Augusta, from burns sustained when a kerosene heater she attempted to light malfunctioned and burst into flames.
A lifelong atheist, she donated her body to medical science and remembered the Freedom From Religion Foundation in her will.
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