Editing Alf Landon (section)

==Final year==
[[File:Alf Landon meets Ronald Reagan on his 100th birthday.png|thumb|Alf Landon meeting U.S. President [[Ronald Reagan]] on September 6, 1987, three days before his 100th birthday]]
[[Ronald Reagan|President Ronald Reagan]] and his wife [[Nancy Reagan|Nancy]] attended Landon's hundredth birthday party at his home in [[Topeka, Kansas|Topeka]].<ref>{{Citation|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1987-09-08-vw-6663-story.html|title=Reagan's Vacation : When the President Takes Time Off Out Here, the Costs and the Logistics Are Enormous|access-date=April 3, 2016|author=Sipchen, Bob|date=September 8, 1987|work=[[Los Angeles Times]]}}</ref> Describing Landon as "the living soul of Kansas", the 76-year old-Reagan remarked, "You don't know what a joy it is for a fella like me to go to a birthday party for someone who can, in all honesty, call me a kid." Landon, standing with the use of a walking stick, told the President and well-wishers at the party, "It's a great day in my life. And it's a great day in the lives of all of us to have had the privilege that we have today of meeting with the President of the United States and Mrs. Reagan."<ref>{{Citation|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1987/09/07/us/at-a-party-for-100th-birthday-landon-receives-a-kid-of-76.html/|title=At a Party for 100th Birthday, Landon Receives a Kid of 76|access-date=March 21, 2016|author=Brinkley, Joel|date=September 7, 1987|work=[[The New York Times]]}}</ref> [[White House Chief of Staff]] [[Howard Baker]] married Landon's daughter [[Nancy Landon Kassebaum|Nancy]] nine years later.

Nine days after his birthday, Landon was hospitalized at Stormant-Vail Regional Medical Center after complaining of internal pain.  He was treated for a gallstone and a mild case of bronchitis and returned home on October 10.<ref>The Salina Journal, October 13, 1987, page 1</ref>
Landon died in Topeka on October 12, 1987, at 5:25&nbsp;p.m.,<ref name="Alf"/> thirty-three days after celebrating his hundredth birthday, and is interred at Mount Hope Cemetery in Topeka. At the time of his death, he was survived by his second wife, Theo Cobb.<ref name="nytimes.com"/><ref name="Widow">{{cite news |title=Widow of Alf Landon Dies |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1996/07/23/us/widow-of-alf-landon-dies.html |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=July 23, 1996 |access-date=December 12, 2010}}</ref>