Editing Count Basie (section)

==Marriage, family and death==

[[File:Count Basie home in Addesleigh Pk, Adelaide rd.jpg|thumb|left|Count Basie home in Addisleigh Pk, Adelaide Rd.]]

Basie was a member of [[Omega Psi Phi]] fraternity. On July 21, 1930, Basie married Vivian Lee Winn, in Kansas City, Missouri. They were divorced sometime before 1935. Some time in or before 1935, the now single Basie returned to New York City, renting a house at 111 West 138th Street, Manhattan, as evidenced by the 1940 census. He married Catherine Morgan on July 13, 1940, in the King County courthouse in Seattle, Washington. In 1942, they moved to Queens. Their only child, Diane, was born February 6, 1944. She was born with [[cerebral palsy]] and the doctors claimed she would never walk. The couple kept her and cared deeply for her, and especially through her mother's tutelage, Diane learned not only to walk but to swim.<ref>{{cite web |title=Count Basie: Through his own eyes |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11417720/?ref_=nm_flmg_dr_1 |website=IMDb |date = September 11, 2020|publisher=Eagle Rock Productions}}</ref> The Basies bought a home in the new whites-only neighborhood of Addisleigh Park in 1946 on Adelaide Road and 175th Street, [[St. Albans, Queens]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://greenpleasantland.com| title=This Green and Pleasant Land | author=Greene, Bryan | newspaper=Poverty and Race | volume=26 | issue=1 | date=January–March 2017 |publisher=Poverty and Race Research Action Council | page=3 }}</ref>
On April 11, 1983, [[Catherine Basie]] died of heart disease at the couple's home in Freeport, Grand Bahama Island. She was 67 years old.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mRkqCgAAQBAJ&q=Catherine+Basie+april+1983+freeport&pg=PA157|title=Rhythm Is My Beat: Jazz Guitar Great Freddie Green and the Count Basie Sound|first=Alfred|last=Green|date=August 6, 2015|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|via=Google Books|isbn=9781442242470}}</ref> Daughter Diane Basie died October 15, 2022, of a heart attack.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.thecountbasieorchestra.com/in-memory-of-diane-lillian-basie-1944-2022/#:~:text=It%20is%20with%20a%20heavy,attack%20a%20few%20days%20before. |title= 10/25/2022 [obituary] |website=The Legendary Count Basie Orchestra|date=October 25, 2022| access-date=July 10, 2023}}</ref>

Count Basie died of [[pancreatic cancer]] in [[Hollywood, Florida]], on April 26, 1984, at the age of 79.<ref name="NYT1984"/>