Editing Caroll Spinney (section)

==Personal life and death==
Spinney had three children from his first marriage to Janice Spinney, whom he married in 1960.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/05/03/my-secret-life-as-big-bird-the-dark-past-and-sunny-days-of-caroll-spinney.html|title=My Secret Life as Big Bird: The Dark Past and Sunny Days of Caroll Spinney|newspaper=The Daily Beast|last=Fallon|first=Kevin|date=May 3, 2015|access-date=August 17, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Hageman|first=William|url=http://www.chicagotribune.com/lifestyles/parenting/sc-fam-0428-big-bird-caroll-spinney-20150423-story.html|title=Caroll Spinney is Big Bird, for 45 years now|newspaper=[[Chicago Tribune]]|date=May 4, 2015|access-date=August 17, 2016}}</ref> Spinney and Janice divorced in 1971.<ref>{{cite news|last=O'Sullivan|first=Michael|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/goingoutguide/movies/i-am-big-bird-the-caroll-spinney-story-goes-inside-the-fluffy-feathers/2015/06/24/48e06f28-18fe-11e5-ab92-c75ae6ab94b5_story.html|title='I Am Big Bird: The Caroll Spinney Story' goes inside the fluffy feathers|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|date=June 25, 2015|access-date=September 9, 2016}}</ref> Spinney was married to his second wife, Debra Jean Gilroy, from 1979 until his death.<ref>{{cite news|last=Coffey|first=Denise|url=http://www.courant.com/community/putnam/hc-pt-putnam-big-bird-1119-20151113-story.html|title=Big Bird Offers This Advice: Believe in Yourself|newspaper=[[Hartford Courant]]|date=November 13, 2015|access-date=August 27, 2016}}</ref> In 2015, Spinney was diagnosed with [[dystonia]], a neurological movement disorder that causes muscle contractions.<ref>{{cite news|last=Dalton|first=Andrew|title=Sesame Street puppeteer Caroll Spinney dies at age 85|url=https://apnews.com/fd9a5a4a07af19ddcdb36f7d3d32bccc|access-date=December 8, 2019|work=AP News|date=December 8, 2019}}</ref>

Spinney died at his home in [[Woodstock, Connecticut]], on December 8, 2019, at the age of 85.<ref name="nytimes2019">{{cite news|first=Robert D.|last=McFadden|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/08/obituaries/caroll-spinney-dead.html|title=Caroll Spinney, Big Bird's Alter Ego on 'Sesame Street,' Is Dead at 85.|newspaper=The New York Times|date=December 8, 2019|access-date=December 8, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.sesameworkshop.org/press-room/press-releases/remembering-legendary-puppeteer-caroll-spinney|title=Remembering Legendary Puppeteer Caroll Spinney|date=December 8, 2019|publisher=Sesame Workshop|access-date=December 8, 2019}}</ref>