Editing Pete Fountain (section)

==Personal life==
Fountain married Beverly Lang on October 27, 1951; they remained married for sixty-five years until his death. They have two sons and a daughter: Kevin, Jeffrey, and Dahra.{{sfn|Fountain|1972|p=77}} Dahra's husband, Benny Harrell, was Fountain's manager in his later years.

Fountain died of heart failure in his home town on August 6, 2016, at the age of eighty-six. He had suffered from heart problems and was in hospice care when he died.<ref name=latimes/><ref name=death>{{cite news |last=Schudel |first=Matt |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/pete-fountain-who-kept-dixieland-swinging-in-new-orleans-dies-at-86/2016/08/06/bed9239c-5be6-11e6-9aee-8075993d73a2_story.html |title=Pete Fountain, who kept Dixieland swinging in New Orleans, dies at 86 |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |date=August 6, 2016 |access-date=August 6, 2016}}</ref>