Death
Astor died on August 13, 2007 at the age of 105 from pneumonia at her home in Briarcliff Manor, New York.
One of Astor's death notices in the Times, a paid notice from The Rockefeller University, ended with these lines:
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- "And if you should survive to 105,
- Look at all you'll derive out of being alive.
- Then here is the best part,
- You'll have a head start,
- If you are among the very young at heart."
Among the organizations who lamented her death included the New York Public Library, New York University, the New York Regional Association of Grantmakers, the New York Botanical Garden, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, WNET-TV, Historic Hudson Valley, The Juilliard School, the New York Landmarks Conservancy, the Wildlife Conservation Society, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Carnegie Hall, the Morris-Juemel Mansion Museum, the Citizens' Committee for New York City, the Rockefeller University, the Animal Medical Center, the Merchant's House Museum, the Library of America, the Pierpont Morgan Library, the Lotos Club, Lenox Hill Neighborhood House and the Brooklyn Stained Glass Conservation Center.
She is interred in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Sleepy Hollow, New York. The epitaph on her gravestone, chosen by her, reads: "I had a wonderful life".
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