Death
Curtis Springer died in Las Vegas on August 19, 1985, at the age of 88. He was buried in the Riverside National Cemetery in Riverside, California, on April 26, 1991. Two notable publications, the journal Word Ways and the book Weird California, have incorrectly reported Springer's year of death as 1986.
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