Death and Posthumous Honors
Dvorak died in 1969 at age 91. His last place of residence was in Seattle.
In 2008, Dvorak was posthumously inducted into the Michigan Track and Field Hall of Fame.
Read more about this topic: Charles Dvorak
Famous quotes containing the words death, posthumous and/or honors:
“I’m afraid of needles.
I’m tired of rubber sheets and tubes.
I’m tired of faces that I don’t know
and now I think that death is starting.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
“Fashion, though in a strange way, represents all manly virtue. It is virtue gone to seed: it is a kind of posthumous honor. It does not often caress the great, but the children of the great: it is a hall of the Past.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“There is a moment when god honors falsehood.”
—Aeschylus (525–456 B.C.)