Death
Stevenson was recovering from bladder cancer surgery in a Los Angeles hospital on February 15, 1996, when he suffered a fatal heart attack.
Stevenson is interred in Forest Lawn - Hollywood Hills Cemetery in Los Angeles. He was survived by his wife Ginny and daughter Lindsey - daughter Jennifer, and son Jeff MacGregor (both from previous marriages).
Coincidentally, Stevenson died only one day before Roger Bowen died; Bowen portrayed the original Colonel Henry Blake in the 1970 movie M*A*S*H.
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