Death
Cecilia Loftus died from a heart attack and the effects of alcoholism at the Lincoln Hotel in New York City, on July 12, 1943, aged 66. Her mother had predeceased her by only three years. She is buried in Kensico Cemetery, Valhalla, Westchester County, New York, in a plot owned by the Actors' Fund.
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