how did frances Scottie Lanahan Fitzgerald Die?

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Answer 1

You asked about Scottie, not the F. Scott or Zelda. Scottie also died of esophogeal cancer (probably brought on by her own alcoholism). I read the expanded version of her autobiography by Eleanor Lanahan. You can get it on Amazon if you want. Sad and troubled family.

Answer 2

Frances Scottie Fitzgerald

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how did frances Scottie Lanahan Fitzgerald Die?
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Hope this helps: from wikipedia.


] Illness and Death
Fitzgerald had clearly been an alcoholic since his college days, and he became notorious during the 1920s for his extraordinarily heavy drinking. This left him in poor health by the late 1930s. According to Zelda's biographer, Nancy Milford, Scott would also claim from time to time that he had contracted tuberculosis, but she states plainly that this was usually a pretext to cover his drinking problems (Fitzgerald biographer Matthew J. Bruccoli, however, contends that Fitzgerald did in fact have recurring tuberculosis). However, Milford also reports that Fitzgerald biographer Arthur Mizener said that Scott did suffer a mild attack of tuberculosis in 1919, and in 1929 he had "what proved to be a tubercular hemorrhage". Given the extent of Scott's alcoholism, however, it is equally likely that the hemorrhage might have been caused by bleeding from esophageal varices—enlarged veins in the esophagus that result from advanced liver disease. Ironically enough, it was most likely Fitzgerald's lifelong smoking habit, and not his drinking, that did the most to damage his health and brought on the heart problems that eventually killed him.

Fitzgerald suffered two heart attacks in late 1940. After the first, he was ordered by his doctor to avoid strenuous exertion and to obtain a first floor apartment, which he did by moving in with his lover, Sheilah Graham. On the night of December 20, 1940, he had his second heart attack; the next day, December 21, while awaiting a visit from his doctor, Fitzgerald collapsed while clutching the mantelpiece in Graham's apartment and died at the age of 44.

Among the attendants at a visitation held at a funeral home in Hollywood was Dorothy Parker, who reportedly cried and murmured "the poor son of a *****," a line from Jay Gatsby's funeral in Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. His remains were then shipped to Maryland, where his funeral was attended by very few people. Zelda died in a fire at the Highland mental institution in Asheville, North Carolina, in 1948. The two were originally buried in Rockville Union Cemetery, but with the permission and assistance of their only child, Frances "Scottie" Fitzgerald Lanahan Smith, the Women's Club of Rockville had their bodies moved to the family plot in Saint Mary's Cemetery, in Rockville, Maryland.

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Eleanor Lanahan