Pearl Bailey - Death

Death

Pearl Bailey died at the Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia on August 17, 1990. Following an autopsy, Dr. Emanuel Rubin, professor and chairman of the Department of Pathology at Jefferson Medical College, announced the cause of death as arteriosclerotic coronary artery disease with significant narrowing of the coronary artery. She is buried at Rolling Green Memorial Park in West Chester, Pennsylvania.

Seth MacFarlane, creator of television's Family Guy and American Dad!, paid tribute to Pearl Bailey in American Dad, where the high school that Steve Smith attends is called Pearl Bailey High School.

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