Editing Damon Runyon (section)

==Death==
[[File:The Family Plot of Damon Runyon in Woodlawn Cemetery.JPG|thumb|The family plot of Damon Runyon in [[Woodlawn Cemetery (Bronx, New York)|Woodlawn Cemetery]]]]
In late 1946, the same year he and his second wife were divorced, Runyon died, at age 66,  in New York City from the [[Esophageal cancer|throat cancer]] that had been diagnosed two years earlier, in 1944, when he underwent an unsuccessful operation that left him practically unable to speak.<ref name=club/>

His body was cremated, and his ashes were scattered from a [[DC-3]] airplane over Broadway in Manhattan by [[Eddie Rickenbacker]] on December 18, 1946. This was an infringement of the law but widely approved.<ref>''Eddie Rickenbacker: An American Hero in the Twentieth Century'', by W. David Lewis, p. 506.</ref> The family plot of Damon Runyon is located at [[Woodlawn Cemetery (Bronx, New York)|Woodlawn Cemetery]] in The Bronx, New York.

Runyon, in his [[will and testament|will]], left to his former second wife his house in [[Florida]], his racing stables, and the money from his insurance. He split in half the royalties from his works to his children and Grande.<ref>{{cite book |last=Edwin |first=Palmer Hoyt|author-link=Edwin Palmer Hoyt |date=1964|title=A gentleman of Broadway |publisher=[[Little, Brown]]|isbn=978-1199452177}}</ref>{{rp|301}} His daughter Mary was eventually institutionalized for [[alcoholism]] while his son Damon Jr., after working as a journalist in [[Washington, D.C.]], died by suicide in 1968.<ref name=life/>{{rp|393–94}}