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==Death== [[File:Jennifer Jones Star HWF.JPG|thumb|upright|Jones' star on the [[Hollywood Walk of Fame]] at 6429 Hollywood Boulevard]] Jones enjoyed a quiet retirement, living with her eldest child, son [[Robert Walker (actor, born 1940)|Robert Walker Jr.]], and his family in Malibu for the last six years of her life. Jones's younger son, actor Michael Ross Walker, died from cardiac arrest on December 23, 2007, at age 66, while Robert Jr. died on December 5, 2019, at age 79.<ref>{{Cite news|author=Mike Barnes|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/robert-walker-jr-dead-star-trek-actor-son-hollywood-superstars-was-79-1260215|title=Robert Walker Jr., 'Star Trek' Actor and Son of Hollywood Superstars, Dies at 79|website=The Hollywood Reporter|date=December 6, 2019|access-date=December 5, 2023|archive-date=December 7, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191207171524/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/robert-walker-jr-dead-star-trek-actor-son-hollywood-superstars-was-79-1260215|url-status=live}}</ref> Jones participated in Gregory Peck's [[AFI Life Achievement Award]] ceremony in 1989 and appeared at the 70th (1998) and 75th (2003) Academy Awards as part of the shows' tributes to past Oscar winners. In the last six years of her life, she granted no interviews and rarely appeared in public. She died of natural causes on December 17, 2009, at age 90.<ref name=NYTobit>{{cite news| title=Jennifer Jones, Postwar Actress, Dies at 90| url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/18/movies/18jones.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181019205706/https://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/18/movies/18jones.html|archive-date=October 19, 2018|work=The New York Times| date=December 17, 2009| first=Aljean| last=Harmetz}}</ref> She was cremated and her ashes were interred with her second husband in the Selznick private room at the [[Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale)|Forest Lawn Memorial Park]] in Glendale, California. Minor planet [[6249 Jennifer]] is named in her honor.<ref>{{cite book |title=(6249) Jennifer In: Dictionary of Minor Planet Names |publisher=Springer |date=2003 |isbn=978-3-540-29925-7 |doi=10.1007/978-3-540-29925-7_5751}}</ref>
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