Editing Ub Iwerks (section)

== Personal life ==
Iwerks had two children with his wife, Mildred (née Henderson): [[Don Iwerks|Donald]] and David.  Donald went on to work for the Walt Disney company and to found [[SimEx-Iwerks|Iwerks Entertainment]]. His granddaughter is documentary film producer [[Leslie Iwerks]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fAv0NL2Ezc|title=Untold with Leslie Iwerks|publisher=[[Disney]]|via=[[YouTube]]|language=en-US|url-status=live|date=May 12, 2020|access-date=July 22, 2023|archive-date=July 22, 2023|archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/1fAv0NL2Ezc}}</ref>  David Iwerks became a portrait photographer.<ref name="hollywood-studio-magazine-1966-11">{{Cite web |date=November 1966 |title=Dave Iwerks Catches Great in the Eye of His Perceptive Camera |url=https://archive.org/details/hollywood-studio-magazine-1966-11 |access-date=March 7, 2022 |website=Hollywood Studio Magazine |publisher=San Fernando Valley Pub. Co. |quote=via: archive.org |location=Sherman Oaks, CA}}</ref><ref name="loc-93511088">{{Cite web |last=Iwerks |first=David Lee |title=John F. Kennedy, Head-and-Shoulders Portrait, Facing Slightly Left |url=https://www.loc.gov/item/93511088/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220307135004/https://www.loc.gov/item/93511088/ |archive-date=March 7, 2022 |access-date=March 7, 2022 |website=Library of Congress}}</ref>

Iwerks died in 1971 from a [[heart attack]] in [[Burbank, California]], aged 70, and his ashes are interred in a niche in the Columbarium of Remembrance at [[Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills)|Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Hollywood Hills Cemetery]]. The last project he worked on was the [[Hall of Presidents]].<ref name=korkis/><ref>{{Cite news |last=Spry |first=Jeff |date=February 1, 2020 |title=The Son of Mickey Mouse's Co-Creator Opens Up the Book on Disney Classics |work=[[Syfy Wire]] |url=https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/the-son-of-mickey-mouses-co-creator-opens-up-the-book-on-disney-classics |url-status=live |access-date=May 2, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220502180710/https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/the-son-of-mickey-mouses-co-creator-opens-up-the-book-on-disney-classics |archive-date=May 2, 2022}}</ref>