Death
On July 3, 1993, DeRita died of pneumonia at the Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital in Woodland Hills, California, nine days before his 84th birthday. He was buried in the Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery in North Hollywood; his epitaph reads "The Last Stooge", as he outlived Joe Besser (although Emil Sitka died in 1998, his position as an "official" Stooge is debatable as he never appeared on screen in this capacity).
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