Death
During a power failure on June 8, 1982, Paige died of a heart attack at his home in Kansas City, a month before his 76th birthday. He is buried on Paige Island in the Forest Hill Memorial Park Cemetery in Kansas City.
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Famous quotes containing the word death:
“O mortal folk, you may behold and see
How I lie here, sometime a mighty knight;
The end of joy and all prosperity
Is death at last, thorough his course and might;”
—Stephen Hawes (1474–1528)
“It is not death therefore that is burdensome, but the fear of death.”
—Ambrose (c. 333–397)
“I can only see death and more death, till we are black and swollen with death.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)