Final Years and Death
In 1985, White became a resident of the Motion Picture and Television Hospital in Woodland Hills, California, for his last few years being almost bedridden. He died of congestive heart failure on 6 May 1991 (6 days before his 88th birthday), survived by his second wife and his three children.
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When all the fireworks blare, begins
A tom-tom scrimmage with a somewhere violin,
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