Editing Paul Lynde (section)

== Death ==
On January 10, 1982, after Lynde failed to attend a birthday celebration, his friend, actor/model [[Paul Barresi]], became concerned. When Barresi and another friend, actor Dean Dittman, could not get an answer after calling Lynde on the phone and knocking on Lynde's door, Barresi broke into the side entrance to Lynde's home in [[Beverly Hills, California]], and found Lynde dead in his bed in the early morning hours of January 11, 1982. Lynde was 55 years old.

Stories circulated suggesting that Lynde had a visitor at the time of his death who fled the scene, but evidence indicated the stories were false.<ref name = "biog" /> Lynde regularly activated his house alarm before retiring for the evening. When Barresi broke in, the alarm blared, indicating that Lynde had been alone at the time of his death and that he had died in his sleep. Contrary to other reports that Lynde was found naked, Barresi said, "Not so. Paul was in his pajamas and wearing a robe."<ref name = "death">{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=xBJGAAAAIBAJ&pg=6913,912817&dq=paul+lynde+heart+attack&hl=en |title=Paul Lynde Suffers Heart Attack: Dead at 55 |author1=Paul Simon |date=January 12, 1982|work=[[Glasgow Daily Times|The Daily Times]] |access-date=July 29, 2013}}</ref><ref name="rush-bio">{{cite news |url=http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/gossip/lynde-bio-squarely-denies-od-article-1.644941 |title=Lynde Bio Squarely Denies He OD'd |author1=Rush & Molloy |date=September 1, 2005 |work=[[Daily News (New York)|Daily News]]|location=New York |access-date=July 29, 2013}}</ref>

The [[coroner]] ruled the death was caused by a heart attack.<ref name = death /> Lynde's cremated remains are interred at Amity Cemetery, in [[Amity, Knox County, Ohio]], next to those of his brother Johnny and his sister Helen. His mother, father, and veteran brother, Coradon, are buried at the same cemetery.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/2010/08/11/bewitched-by-time/ |title=Bewitched by time |author1=Julia Keller |date=August 11, 2010 |work=[[Chicago Tribune]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Coradon George Lynde: Private from Ohio, World War II Casualty |url=https://www.honorstates.org/index.php?id=514031 |website=honorstates.org |access-date=September 12, 2022}}</ref>