Later Life
In 1972, she recalled having once made an attempt at retirement but live performing was too much fun. Hilo Hattie succumbed to cancer on December 12, 1979. She is buried in the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific (Section U, Grave 653-A) under her married name, Clara Nelson.
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