Editing Sarah Vaughan (section)

==Death==
In 1989, Vaughan's health began to decline, although she rarely revealed any hints of this in her performances. She canceled a series of engagements in Europe in 1989, citing the need to seek treatment for arthritis of the hand, although she was able to complete a series of performances in Japan. During a run at New York's [[Blue Note Jazz Club]] in 1989, she was diagnosed with lung cancer and was too ill to finish the last day of what would turn out to be her final series of public performances.

Vaughan returned to her home in California to begin chemotherapy and spent her final months alternating stays in the hospital and at home. She grew weary of the struggle and demanded to be taken home, where at the age of 66 she died on the evening of April 3, 1990, while watching ''Laker Girls'', a television movie featuring her daughter.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/414906/laker-girls#notes |title=Laker Girls |website=Turner Classic Movies |publisher=Turner Classic Movies |access-date=January 20, 2021 |quote=Aired in United States April 3, 1990}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url = https://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/archives/la-me-sarah-vaughan-19900405-snap-story.html|title = Sarah Vaughan, 'Divine One' of Jazz, Dies at 66|newspaper= [[Los Angeles Times]]|date = April 5, 1990|access-date = March 25, 2021|last = Oliver|first = Myrna}}</ref>

Her funeral was held at Mount Zion Baptist Church in [[Newark, New Jersey]]. Following the ceremony, a horse-drawn carriage transported her body to [[Glendale Cemetery, Bloomfield]].<ref>{{cite news|author=Scaduto, Anthony|url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/newsday/access/77353804.html?dids=77353804:77353804&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Apr+10%2C+1990&author=By+Anthony+Scaduto&pub=Newsday+(Combined+editions)&desc=A+Final+Farewell+To+Sarah+Vaughan&pqatl=google|title=A Final Farewell To Sarah Vaughan|newspaper=[[Newsday]]|date=April 10, 1990|access-date=July 18, 2011|quote=Two white horses, bedecked with black plumes over their ears, pulled the hearse a little over three miles to Glendale Cemetery in nearby Bloomfield.|archive-date=July 25, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120725050547/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/newsday/access/77353804.html?dids=77353804:77353804&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Apr+10%2C+1990&author=By+Anthony+Scaduto&pub=Newsday+(Combined+editions)&desc=A+Final+Farewell+To+Sarah+Vaughan&pqatl=google|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WSaMu4F06AQC&q=sarah+vaughan+glendale+cemetery&pg=PA653|title=Notable American Women: A Biographical Dictionary Completing the Twentieth Century|first=Susan|last=Ware|page=653|date=July 23, 2004|publisher=Harvard University Press|isbn=9780674014886|access-date=July 23, 2021|via=Google Books}}</ref>