Death
Mabley died in White Plains, New York in 1975 at the White Plains Hospital where she had been a patient for six weeks, from heart failure. She was survived by her children, Bonnie, Christine, Charles, and Yvonne Ailey. Funeral services were held at Harlem's Abyssinian Baptist Church. She is interred at Ferncliff Cemetery, Hartsdale, New York.
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