Awards
With the Gold Key Award, he was honored in 1979 as a member of the National Cartoonists Society Hall of Fame. In 1958, he was named “Cartoonist of the Year” by the Quaker City Lodge of the B’nai B’rith in ceremonies at Philadelphia Pa. Previous winners were Al Capp, Milton Caniff, and George Wunder.
Van Buren lived in Great Neck, Long Island. When he died in 1988 at North Shore Community Hospital in Manhasset, Long Island, after suffering an injury in a fall, he was 96 years old.
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