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Capp's final years were marked by advancing illness and by family tragedy, with the unexpected deaths of one of his two daughters and a beloved granddaughter.

A lifelong chain smoker, Capp died in 1979 from emphysema at his home in South Hampton, New Hampshire.

Capp is buried in Mount Prospect Cemetery in Amesbury, Massachusetts.

Engraved on his headstone is a stanza from Thomas Gray: The plowman homeward plods his weary way / And leaves the world to darkness and to me, ( from " Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard ," 1751 ).