Death
Allen Hoskins died of cancer on July 26, 1980, in Oakland, California. He was survived by his sister Jannie Hoskins, who died in the Bay Area in January 1996. Hoskins was buried in an unmarked grave at Evergreen Cemetery in Oakland, and received a proper headstone in 2005.
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