Whitney Blake - Illness and Death

Illness and Death

According to the book Untied, by Blake's daughter, Meredith Baxter, on Blake's 76th birthday Blake's children took her and Manings to dinner. Later that evening Blake revealed that she had been diagnosed with esophageal cancer. She expressed confidence that she would beat the disease but died seven months later. She experienced great discomfort during her final months. Manings told Baxter, his stepdaughter, that the most difficult day was when he told Blake that he had to hire hospice care for her, at which time Blake realized that her condition was terminal.

Whitney Blake died at her home in 2002 in Edgartown, Massachusetts. She was survived by her husband, Allan Manings, and the three children from her first marriage.