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Friday, June 11, 1999 | return to: obituaries
Singer Mel Torme dies
by NEW YORK (JTA) -- Playboy publisher Hugh Hefner and actor Cliff Robertson were among the friends of Mel Torme who paid tribute t, Torme, who died Saturday at 73 of complications from a stroke he suffered in 1996, was born to Russian Jewish immigrant parents
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In an interview some years ago, the singer recalled that he and his family liked to sit on the front stoop after Sabbath dinner and sing for the neighbors.
About 300 fans attended the funeral, sitting on the lawn of the Westwood Village Memorial Park, while about 200 family and close friends were inside the chapel.
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