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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