James Van Allen [SEP] cause of death
On August 9, 2006 James Van Allen died at University Hospitals in Iowa City from heart failure.
Professor Van Allen and his wife are buried in Southampton, New York, where Mrs. Van Allen (Abigail Halsey) was born and the couple were married in 1945.
In 2009 Van Allen's boyhood home in Mt. Pleasant, once maintained as a museum to him, was slated to be demolished. The new owner, Lee Pennebaker, chose not to demolish the home. It was donated to the Henry County Heritage
1937. Her death certificate identified her as May de Pallandt van Eerde and the cause of death was noted as cancer. The newspaper death notice listed her as beloved wife Marie of Edward Allen Morrisey, who worked for the Zanuck Movie Company. She is buried in Gate of Heaven Cemetery, Hawthorne, Westchester County, New York.
In popular culture.
The life of May Dugas de Pallandt van Eerde is the subject of the novel "Parlor Games" (Doubleday 2013) by Maryka Biaggio.