In summer 1976, she was rushed to Cedars-Sinai Memorial Hospital in Los Angeles, CA, where she went into a coma. She awoke for several days just before Labor Day, but sank back shortly after. She passed away on October 5, 1976, two months away from what would have been her 48th birthday on December 10. She was interred at Pinelawn Memorial Park in Farmingdale, New York.