Death
Luce died of brain cancer on October 9, 1987, aged 84, at her Watergate apartment in Washington D.C. She is buried at Mepkin Abbey, South Carolina, a plantation that she and Henry Luce had once owned and given to a community of Trappist monks. She lies in a grave adjoining those of her mother, her daughter, and her husband.
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