Death. She died of complications from a stroke on March 14, 2009, at age 65 in Los Angeles. She is interred in an unmarked grave at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California, next to her husband, Sammy Davis Jr.
Davis died of complications from throat cancer two months later at his home in Beverly Hills, California, on May 16, 1990, at age 64. He was buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California.
On May 16, 1990, Sammy Davis Jr. passed away at his home in Beverly Hills, California, at the age of 64. Before his death, he was honored by an array of his peers at a February television tribute.
About 200 family members, friends and close associates attended the private service at Graceland, a star-studded event that brought John Wayne, Burt Reynolds, George Hamilton, Ann-Margret and Caroline Kennedy.
When Elvis himself passed away in 1977, James Blackwood sang at his funeral as well. “It's kind of come full circle, because the (Presley) family asked the Blackwood Brothers to sing at Lisa Marie's (funeral),” said Rogers.
He had a close bond with fellow Rat Packer Frank Sinatra
During his teens, Davis Jr. first met Frank Sinatra when he helped open for the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra and Sinatra. The two became lifelong friends, enjoying palpable chemistry both on and off stage. In fact, Sinatra was like a big brother to Sammy.
What did Frank Sinatra leave his children when he died?
The entertainer gave a $250,000 cash bequest to his first wife, Nancy Barbato Sinatra. The couple's three children--Nancy Sinatra Lambert, Francis Wayne Sinatra and Christina Sinatra--also received cash bequests of $200,000 apiece, in addition to their existing trust funds. He left his sheet music to his son.
As a child, "little Sammy" learned to dance from his father and his adopted "Uncle" Will, who led the dance troupe his father worked for. In 1929 at the age of four, Davis joined the act, which was renamed the Will Mastin Trio, and toured the vaudeville circuit, accompanying his elders with flash tap dance routines.
What happened to Sammy Davis Junior's daughter Tracy?
Tracey Davis, who turned her often painful experience as the child of the entertainer Sammy Davis Jr. into a tale of reconciliation across two memoirs, died on Nov. 2 at her home in central Tennessee. She was 59.
In April of that year, Davis's lifelong performing friends paid tribute to him with a television special in his honor. A few weeks later, on May 16, 1990, Davis died in his home at age 64.
In 1960, Davis had cemented his close friendship with Frank Sinatra, performing with him on stage in Las Vegas and co-starring with him in the film Ocean's 11. Frank was even the best man at Sammy's wedding that year.
Davis Jr. was known as someone who could do it all, sing, dance, play instruments, act, do stand-up and he was known for his self-deprecating humor; he once heard someone complaining about discrimination, and he said, "You got it easy. I'm a short, ugly, one-eyed, black Jew.
Davis had hoped Nixon would enact further Civil Rights reforms but was disappointed and later regretted having supported him. Locally, Davis was a real part of the Palm Springs community; he owned a house in the Las Palmas neighborhood across the street from Temple Isaiah.
