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==Private life== Suk married Dvorak's daughter, {{ill|Otilie Suková|cs|Otilie Suková-Dvořáková}}, a composer in her own right, in 1898.<ref>Eleanor Kelly. [https://donne-uk.org/otiliesukova/# 'Otilie Suková (1878-1905)'], Donne Foundation</ref> They had one child, a son, also named Josef, in 1898. Otilie died of heart failure aged 27 in 1905, a year after her father. Josef Suk Jr. in turn was father of the acclaimed violinist [[Josef Suk (violinist)|Josef Suk]], who died in 2011.<ref>Alena Němcová. [http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/subscriber/article/grove/music/27095 "Suk, Josef (ii)."] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240104123556/https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/display/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000027095 |date=4 January 2024 }} Grove Music Online. Oxford Music Online. Oxford University Press. Web. 7 July 2015.</ref> Suk retired in 1933,<ref name="Grove1" /> although he continued to be a valuable and inspirational public figure to the Czechs.<ref>Holland, Bernard. "[http://ic.galegroup.com/ic/whic/NewsDetailsPage/NewsDetailsWindow?failOverType=&query=&windowstate=normal&contentModules=&mode=view&displayGroupName=News&limiter=&currPage=&disableHighlighting=&source=&sortBy=&displayGroups=&action=e&catId=&activityType=&scanId=&documentId=GALE%7CA119639114&userGroupName=butleru&jsid=209b86b4b145016dcfb0e0ce3457fd57 A String Quartet as Family Affair And Showcase for Czech Masters] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240104123523/https://go.gale.com/ps/i.do?p=WHIC&u=butleru&v=2.1&it=r&id=GALE%7CA119639114&asid=1704430800000~26ad9bd3 |date=4 January 2024 }}." ''New York Times'' Page 23 July 2004: E10. Gale World History in Context. 1. Date accessed: 2 October 2012).</ref> Suk died on 29 May 1935, in [[Benešov]], [[Czechoslovakia]] (now [[Czech Republic]]); he was buried in the cemetery of St Luke's Church, [[Křečovice]].{{citation needed|date=November 2022}}
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