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==Personal life and death== [[File:Grave of Link Wray.JPG|thumbnail|right|Link Wray's grave]] Wray's first three marriages, to Elizabeth Canady Wray, Ethel Tidwell Wray, and Sharon Cole Wray, produced eight children. In the early 1980s, Wray relocated to Denmark and married Olive Poulsen, who became his manager.<ref name=":0">{{cite news |last=Bernstein |first=Adam |title=Guitarist Link Wray Dies; Influenced Punk, Grunge |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/21/AR2005112101484.html |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |date=November 22, 2005 |access-date=December 8, 2013}}</ref> Wray died of [[heart failure]] at his home in [[Copenhagen]], on November 5, 2005, at the age of 76.<ref name="nytobit">{{cite news |last=Sisario |first=Ben |author-link=Ben Sisario |title=Link Wray, 76, a Guitarist With Raw Rockabilly Sound, Dies |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/22/arts/link-wray-76-a-guitarist-with-raw-rockabilly-sound-dies.html?_r=0 |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=November 22, 2005}}</ref> He was survived by his nine children, 24 grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren.<ref name=":0"/> Wray was cremated, and his ashes were buried in the crypt of the [[Christian's Church, Copenhagen]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/guitarist-link-wray-dies-at-76-60597 |title=Guitarist Link Wray Dies At 76 |website=Billboard.com|date=21 November 2005 }}</ref>
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