Death and Legacy
Messmer died of a heart attack at Holy Name Medical Center in Teaneck, New Jersey on October 28, 1983, aged 91. Today Felix the Cat is run in syndication in over 250 newspapers all over the world.
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“No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a piece of the Continent, a part of the main.... Any man’s death diminishes me because I am involved in Mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.”
—John Donne (c. 1572–1631)
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