Oliver Hardy left him confined to bed and unable to speak for several months. He remained at home in the care of his wife Lucille. He suffered two more strokes in early August 1957 and slipped into a coma, and he died from cerebral thrombosis on August 7, 1957 at age 65. He was cremated and his ashes are interred in the Masonic Garden of Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery in North Hollywood. Laurel was too ill to attend the funeral, but he said that "Babe would understand." Notes Citations Bibliography Oliver Hardy Oliver Norvell Hardy (born Norvell Hardy, January 18, 1892 –
Oliver (given name) Oliver (given name) Oliver is a masculine given name of Old French origin; "Oliver" is one of Charlemagne's retainers in the 11th-century "Song of Roland". The name was generally associated with the Latin term/name "olivarius" "olive tree planter", but may have been connected with the Germanic names "*wulfa-" "wolf" and "*χarja-" "army", or the Old Norse" Óleifr" (Ólaf); or a genuinely West Germanic name, perhaps from "ala-" "all" and "wēra" "true", or from "alf" "elf" and "hari" "army, warrior" (in both cases possibly cognate with Álvaro) and Greek name Eleutherios Modern variants include French "Olivier", Hungarian "Olivér", Irish "Oilibhéar" or