Death
After 43 years of happy marriage with actress Gloria Stuart, Arthur Sheekman succumbed to the effects of Alzheimers Disease, and died on January 12, 1978, just weeks before his 77th birthday. According to widow Gloria Stuart's autobiography, I Just Kept Hoping, Sheekamn was cremated and his ashes were buried beneath a tree at their home in Brentwood, California.
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