Death
Javits died of Lou Gehrig's disease in West Palm Beach, Florida, at the age of eighty-one in March 1986. In addition to spouse Marian Ann Borris Javits, he was survived by three children, Joshua, Carla, and Joy. He is interred at Linden Hill Jewish Cemetery in Queens, NY.
Among those who attended the funeral were Governor Mario Cuomo, Mayor Ed Koch, former President Richard Nixon, Attorney General Edwin Meese, former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, Senator Al D'Amato, Cardinal John Joseph O'Connor, former Mayor Lindsay, former Governor Hugh Carey of New York, and former State Attorney General Louis Lefkowitz.
Also there were former U.S. Representative Bella Abzug of Manhattan; then Senators Nancy Kassebaum Baker of Kansas, Bill Bradley of New Jersey, Lowell Weicker of Connecticut, and Gary Hart of Colorado; David Rockefeller, the banker; Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, publisher of The New York Times; Victor Gotbaum, the labor leader; Kurt Vonnegut, the writer, and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., the actor.
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