Illness and Death
On October 21, 2008 at 99, she was rushed to St. Joseph's Hospital in Burbank, California after suffering a suspected stroke. Her publicist released a statement indicating that she spent less than four hours at the hospital where she underwent routine testing.
Hope died of natural causes at her home in Toluca Lake, California on September 19, 2011. She was 102 years old.
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