Editing Frances Bavier (section)

==Death==
[[File:Gravestone on actress Francis E. Bavier image 1.jpg|thumb|Bavier's gravestone in 2017]]
Bavier was described "as living a sparse life in her later years, a very quiet life".<ref>{{cite news|title='Andy Griffith' Aunt Bee Recluse in Final Years|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-01-17-ca-368-story.html|access-date=August 13, 2016|newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]]|date=January 17, 1990}}</ref> On November 22, 1989, she was admitted to Chatham Hospital, where she was kept in the coronary care unit for two weeks. She was discharged on December 4, 1989. Bavier died at 7 p.m. on December 6, 1989, two days after being released from the hospital and eight days before her 87th birthday.<ref name=":0" /> The immediate causes of death were listed as [[Heart failure|congestive heart failure]], [[myocardial infarction]], [[coronary artery disease]], and [[atherosclerosis]], with supporting factors being [[breast cancer]], [[arthritis]], and [[chronic obstructive pulmonary disease]] (COPD).<ref>{{cite news|title=The cast of 'Griffith Show' mourns Frances Bavier|url=http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1989/12/08/page/125/article/cast-of-griffith-show-mourns-frances-bavier|access-date=August 13, 2016|newspaper=[[Chicago Tribune]]|date=December 8, 1989}}</ref><ref>[http://www.autopsyfiles.org/reports/deathcert/bavier,%20frances_dc.pdf Frances Bavier death certificate], autopsyfiles.org; accessed September 28, 2016.</ref> Bavier is interred at Oakwood Cemetery in [[Siler City, North Carolina|Siler City]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Hoffman|first=James L.|author2=Grizzle, Ralph|title=Day Trips From Raleigh-Durham|publisher=Globe Pequot|year=2007|pages=184–86|isbn=978-0-7627-4543-2}}</ref> Her headstone includes the name of her most famous role, "Aunt Bee", and reads, "To live in the hearts of those left behind is not to die."<ref name="auto"/>