How did Eleanor Roosevelt die?
Eleanor Roosevelt survived her husband by nearly 20 years. By 1960, Roosevelt’s health began to fail her. While leaving a hair appointment in New York City she was run over by a car, taking a heavy fall to the ground. With encouragement from family and friends, she was advised to see a specialist as her general health declined and was diagnosed with aplastic anemia. During treatment of the disease, she developed bone marrow tuberculosis, recurring from a primary 1919 infection, and died at her Manhattan apartment on the evening of November 7, 1962 at the age of 78.[5] At her memorial service, Adlai Stevenson asked, “What other single human being has touched and transformed the existence of so many?” Mrs Roosevelt was buried next to Franklin D. Roosevelt in Hyde Park, New York on November 10, 1962. So revered was she among the public that a commemorative cartoon published at the time simply showed two angels looking down towards an opening in the clouds with the caption “She’s here”, si
