Illness and Death
In 1995, she was diagnosed with lung cancer and given roughly a year to live; she declined all but palliative treatment. Meadows died on February 3, 1996, at Cedars Sinai Hospital-Los Angeles after slipping into a coma. She was five days from her 74th birthday. She was interred in Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City, next to her husband.
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