Editing Ross Bagdasarian (section)

== Death and legacy==
Bagdasarian died of a heart attack at his home in [[Beverly Hills, California|Beverly Hills]] on January 16, 1972, eleven days before his 53rd birthday.<ref name="nyt" /><ref name="Talevski" /> He was cremated and inurned at the [[Chapel of the Pines Crematory]] in Los Angeles.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Wilson |first1=Scott |title=Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons |date=2016 |publisher=[[McFarland & Company|McFarland]] |isbn=9781476625997 |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=FOHgDAAAQBAJ&dq=Chapel+of+the+Pines+Crematory+Bagdasarian&pg=PA36 36] |edition=3rd}}</ref>

Bagdasarian willed the Chipmunks franchise to his wife and three children.<ref name="people"/> Ross Jr. said in an interview that he "worshipped" his father and felt a need to continue his work.<ref name="people"/> He resumed the franchise with his wife [[Janice Karman]] in the late 1970s, after finishing law school,<ref name="Bentley09"/> and became the complete owner when he bought the rights from his siblings in the mid-1990s.<ref name="Pearson"/>