Death
Fontaine died of a heart attack on August 4, 1978 in Spokane, Washington. He had just completed a benefit show and accepted a check for $25,000, which he planned to donate for heart research, when he collapsed.
He was interred at Oak Grove Cemetery in Medford, Massachusetts, near to his last residence in Winchester, Massachusetts, a substantial house on Highland Avenue that is now the home of Winchester Community Music School.
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Famous quotes containing the word death:
“Let the same mind be in you that was in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not regard equality with God as something to be exploited, but emptied himself, taking the form of a slave, being born in human likeness. And being found in human form, he humbled himself and became obedient to the point of death M even death on a cross.”
—Bible: New Testament, Philippians 2:5-8.
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