Editing Sonny Bono (section)

== Death ==
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[[File:Bono, Sunny (grave).jpg|thumb|upright|Sonny Bono's headstone at [[Desert Memorial Park]] ]]

Bono died on January 5, 1998, of injuries incurred when he hit a tree while skiing at [[Heavenly Mountain Resort]] in [[South Lake Tahoe, California]].<ref name="washpost">{{cite news| last=Claiborne| first=William| date=January 7, 1998| url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/campaigns/junkie/links/bono.htm| title=Sonny Bono Is Killed in Ski Crash| newspaper=The Washington Post}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.cnn.com/US/9801/06/bono.obit/ |title=Sonny Bono Killed in Skiing Accident |publisher=[[CNN]] |date=January 6, 1998 |access-date=September 27, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160926080619/http://www.cnn.com/US/9801/06/bono.obit/ |archive-date=September 26, 2016 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

At Mary's request, Cher gave a [[eulogy]] at Sonny's funeral. He was buried at [[Desert Memorial Park]] in [[Cathedral City, California]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://pscemetery.com/images/documents/district/Interments-Interest.pdf |title=Palm Springs Cemetery District "Interments of Interest" |access-date=November 26, 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Brooks |first1=Patricia |title=Laid to Rest in California: a guide to the cemeteries and grave sites of the rich and famous |chapter=Chapter 8: East L.A. and the Desert |pages=239–40 |year=2006 |publisher=Globe Pequot Press |location=Guilford, CT |isbn=978-0-7627-4101-4 |last2=Brooks |first2=Jonathan}}</ref> The epitaph on Bono's headstone reads "AND THE BEAT GOES ON".<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vaI9DAAAQBAJ&q=%22and+the+beat+goes+on%22+headstone+bono&pg=PA53|title=Dashing, Daring, and Debonair: TV's Top Male Icons from the 50s, 60s, and 70s|first=Herbie J.|last=Pilato|date=July 20, 2016|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|via=Google Books|isbn=978-1-63076-053-3}}</ref>

Mary Bono was elected to fill the remainder of her husband's congressional term. She was elected in her own right seven subsequent times before being defeated in the 2012 election.<ref>{{cite news| last=Lochhead| first=Carolyn| title=Mary Bono Mack defeated in Palm Springs upset| newspaper=[[San Francisco Chronicle]]| date=November 7, 2012| url=http://blog.sfgate.com/nov05election/2012/11/07/mary-bono-mack-defeated-in-palm-springs-upset| url-status=dead| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121112022416/http://blog.sfgate.com/nov05election/2012/11/07/mary-bono-mack-defeated-in-palm-springs-upset/| archive-date=November 12, 2012| access-date=November 26, 2023}}{{cbignore}}</ref>