Their son?

[pilotguy]

Originally posted by jayman75
Well, check this out:

http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0307/04/lkl.00.html

This is a transcript of Larry King Live, with Ronnie Burns, that aired 7-4-03.

Here is part of it:

KING: When your mother died, she was how old?

R. BURNS: 58.

KING: Very young.

R. BURNS: Very, very young.

KING: Was it sudden?

R. BURNS: Yes. Well, in those days you had a bad heart there was very little they could do about it. Today you can do a lot. And nobody really knew how bad it was until towards the end. And he never knew.

KING: No, it was a shock?

R. BURNS: It was quite a shock. And her heart just exploded, it just -- it was terrible.

That seems pretty official to me. I will check out your group though and see what's up.

Gracie's death sounds a lot like the John Ritter situation....an undetected heart problem which got so bad that it caused sudden death.
Of course, in Gracie's case the doctor's knew that there WAS a heart problem, but they didn't discover how bad it really was until it was too late.

While there WERE differences in Gracie Allen's and John Ritter's heart conditions, the end result was the same....We lost two very funny and talented people at relatively young ages.

[ethelmaepotter]

Well, first of all, Gracie was not 58. Although Gracie long gave her birthdate as 1906, that was incorrect. Supposedly, it was 1902 but some sources suggest 1898.

George Burns always said it was heart disease that killed her. I don't know why he would lie about that.