Official finding
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Official cause
cancer
Official manner
natural causes
Photo: No credit given. According to Paula Becker: Looking for Betty MacDonald , Seattle 2016, p. 76 and 192, the author is Leonid Fink (died in 1960 according to https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv52062/op=fstyle.aspx?t=i&q=0&f_mattypes=photographs#idm4224 ) · Public domain · Source
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Betty MacDonald
March 26, 1907 – February 7, 1958 · writer, children's writer
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