I, the SS Tuscania was torpedoed. By 1955 he was living alone, in a windowless room on West Second Street in Los Angeles. His only possession of value was his father's 200-year-old violin, which he played daily. He died on June 26, 1957 in Inglewood, California. He was buried in Calvary Cemetery in East Los Angeles. External links Mexican Joe Rivers at Boxrec References Lightweight boxers American male boxers 1892 births 1957 deaths Burials at Calvary Cemetery (Los Angeles)