Editing Dinah Washington (section)

==Personal life and death==
[[File:Grave of Dinah Washington (1924–1963) at Burr Oak Cemetery.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Washington's grave at Burr Oak Cemetery]]
Washington was married seven times,<ref name=NPR>{{cite web |title=Dinah Washington: A Queen in Turmoil |url=https://www.npr.org/2004/08/29/3872390/dinah-washington-a-queen-in-turmoil |website= npr.org |publisher= National Public Radio |date=August 29, 2004 |access-date=February 9, 2020}}</ref><ref name="Encyclopedia7">{{Cite web |title=Washington, Dinah (1924–1963) {{!}} Encyclopedia.com |url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/women/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/washington-dinah-1924-1963 |access-date=2025-03-14 |website=www.encyclopedia.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Dinah Washington and Quincy Jones |url=https://digital.nepr.net/music/2013/09/26/dinah-washington-and-quincy-jones/ |access-date=2025-03-14 |website=digital.nepr.net}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Loudon |first=Christopher |date=2024-07-02 |title=Queen: The Life and Music of Dinah Washington by Nadine Cohodas |url=https://jazztimes.com/reviews/books/queen-the-life-and-music-of-dinah-washington-by-nadine-cohodas/ |access-date=2025-03-14 |website=JazzTimes |language=en-US}}</ref> although according to other sources she had six,<ref>{{cite news|title=Night Train, Dinah Wed|newspaper=Detroit Free Press|date=July 3, 1963|page=2C|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/6820607/night_train_dinah_wed/|via=Newspapers.com}} {{Open access}}</ref> eight<ref>{{Cite web |title=Washington, Dinah |url=https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/dinah-washington/ |access-date=2025-03-14 |website=Encyclopedia of Alabama |language=en-US}}</ref> or nine<ref name="Encyclopedia9">{{Cite web |title=Dinah Washington {{!}} Encyclopedia.com |url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/people/literature-and-arts/music-popular-and-jazz-biographies/dinah-washington |access-date=2025-03-14 |website=www.encyclopedia.com}}</ref> husbands.

Early in the morning of December 14, 1963, Washington's last husband, football player [[Night Train Lane|Dick "Night Train" Lane]], went to sleep with Washington and awoke later to find her slumped over and not responsive. Dr. B.C. Ross pronounced her dead at the scene at age 39.<ref name="Nadine Cohodas 2004" /> An autopsy later showed a lethal combination of [[secobarbital]] and [[amobarbital]], prescriptions for her insomnia and diet, which contributed to her death.<ref name=NPR/> She is buried in the [[Burr Oak Cemetery]] in Alsip, Illinois.