Death
William Wrigley Jr. died January 26, 1932 at his Phoenix, Arizona mansion, at age 70, and was interred in his custom-designed sarcophagus near his beloved home on California's Catalina Island, located in the tower of the island's Wrigley Memorial & Botanical Gardens. But a decade after his death, Wrigley was moved during World War II due to war/security concerns. His original grave memorial marker still adorns the tower site. Wrigley was reinterred in the corridor alcove end of the Sanctuary of Gratitude, at Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California. He left his fortune to daughter Dorothy Wrigley Offield, and son, P.K. Wrigley, who continued to run the company businesses for the next 45 years until his death, in 1977, and whose ashes today rests near his father, in the same Sanctuary of Gratitude alcove.
His great-grandson William Wrigley, Jr. II is the executive-chairman and former CEO of the Wrigley Company. Wrigley was inducted into the Junior Achievement U.S. Business Hall of Fame in 2000.
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