Later Years
In 1967 Sawyer co-founded Lionel Sawyer & Collins, as of 2011 the largest private law firm in Nevada.
Sawyer died on February 19, 1996, in Las Vegas from complications of a debilitating stroke suffered in 1993. His wife Bette died September 11, 2002. Both are buried at Palm Valley View Memorial Park in Las Vegas.
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Famous quotes containing the word years:
“I suppose you think that persons who are as old as your father and myself are always thinking about very grave things, but I know that we are meditating the same old themes that we did when we were ten years old, only we go more gravely about it.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“To tell you the truth, I’m relieved that the Van Ripers are not coming. He’s telling the same jokes he told twenty years ago and she dyes her hair. I think it’s a shrimp pink now.”
—Adele Comandini, and Edward Sutherland. Michael O’Brien (Charles Winninger)