Editing Barbara Stanwyck (section)

==Later years and death==
Stanwyck's retirement years were active, with charity work outside the limelight.{{Citation needed|date=February 2024}}

In 1981, in her home in the exclusive Trousdale section of [[Beverly Hills]], she was awakened during the night by an intruder who struck her on the head with his flashlight, forced her into a closet, and absconded with $40,000 in jewelry.<ref>{{cite magazine | url=http://people.com/archive/cover-story-ball-of-fire-barbara-stanwyck-vol-24-no-22/ | title=Ball of Fire: Barbara Stanwyck | first=John | last=Stark | magazine=[[People (magazine)|People]] | date=November 25, 1985 | access-date=November 22, 2016}}</ref>

In 1982, while filming ''The Thorn Birds'', Stanwyck inhaled special-effects smoke on the set that may have caused her to contract [[bronchitis]], which was compounded by her cigarette-smoking habit. She began smoking at the age of nine and stopped just four years before her death.<ref name=People020590>{{cite magazine | url=http://people.com/archive/barbara-stanwyck-a-stand-up-dame-vol-33-no-5/ | title=Barbara Stanwyck, 'A Stand-Up Dame' | first=John | last=Stark | magazine=People| date=February 5, 1990 | access-date=December 24, 2010}}</ref>

Stanwyck died on January 20, 1990, at the age of 82, from congestive heart failure and [[chronic obstructive pulmonary disease]] at [[Saint John's Health Center]] in [[Santa Monica, California]]. She had indicated that she wanted no funeral service.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1990/01/22/obituaries/barbara-stanwyck-actress-dead-at-82.html | title=Barbara Stanwyck, Actress, Dead at 82 | first=Peter B. | last=Flint | work=[[The New York Times]] | date=January 22, 1990 | page=D11 | access-date=November 22, 2016}}</ref> In accordance with her wishes, her remains were cremated and the ashes scattered from a helicopter over [[Lone Pine, California]], where she had made some of her Western films.<ref>Callahan (2012), p. 220.</ref><ref>Wilson, Scott. ''Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons'', 3d ed.: 2 (Kindle Location 44716). McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers.</ref>