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Frances Dewey died in the summer of 1970 after battling cancer for six years.

Later in 1970 Dewey began to date actress Kitty Carlisle, and there was talk of marriage between them.

However, he died suddenly of a massive heart attack on March 16, 1971, eight days before his 69th birthday, while vacationing with friend Dwayne Andreas in Miami, Florida, following a round of golf with Boston Red Sox player Carl Yastrzemski.

He was 68 years old.

Both he and his wife are buried in the town cemetery of Pawling, New York ; after his death his farm of Dapplemere was sold and renamed " Dewey Lane Farm " in his honor.