Death
On Tuesday, December 21, 1982, Gladys Towles Root collapsed and died in the arms of her protégé David Brockway Esq. during an appearance in a Los Angeles Superior Court Pomona courtroom of a heart attack at age 77. She was in court to defend one of two brothers (David Brockway defended the other) accused of rape. On the day of her death, Gladys was attired completely in purple (the color of law).
Gladys was buried at Forest Lawn Glendale. She was buried in a gold dress with Madonna earrings.
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Famous quotes containing the word death:
“Go; and if that word have not quite killed thee,
Ease me with death by bidding me got too.
Oh, if it have, let my word work on me,
And a just office on a murderer do.
Except it be too late to kill me so,
Being double dead: going, and bidding go.”
—John Donne (1572–1631)
“Sin their conception, their birth weeping,
Their life a general mist of error,
Their death a hideous storm of terror.”
—John Webster (c. 1580–1638)
“There are confessable agonies, sufferings of which one can positively be proud. Of bereavement, of parting, of the sense of sin and the fear of death the poets have eloquently spoken. They command the world’s sympathy. But there are also discreditable anguishes, no less excruciating than the others, but of which the sufferer dare not, cannot speak. The anguish of thwarted desire, for example.”
—Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)