Death
Dillon died at his home at 23 West Fifty-Seventh Street in New York City, after a twelve-week illness, at the age of 80. Funeral services were held at the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church (55th Street and 5th Avenue) on June 13.
He is interred under a distinctive Celtic cross at Woodlawn Cemetery in Bronx, New York.
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