Death
Rayburn's last TV appearance was a 1998 interview with Access Hollywood intended to coincide with the 25th anniversary of the CBS Match Game. Portions of the interview have been rebroadcast on the Game Show Network, which in 2001 showed portions of another previously unaired interview during the first airing of its Match Game Blankathon.
Though in poor health, Rayburn appeared in person to accept a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. A month later, he died at his daughter Lynne Rayburn's Beverly, Massachusetts home of congestive heart failure on November 29, 1999. He was cremated and his ashes spread in the garden of his daughter's home.
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