and the Philippine government gave her its Legion of Merit in 1993. Death Mrs. MacArthur died of natural causes in Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan at age 101. She is entombed with her husband in the rotunda of the MacArthur Memorial in Norfolk, Virginia, the hometown of Gen. MacArthur's mother. References . . 1898 births 2000 deaths People from Nashville, Tennessee People from Manhattan American centenarians Jean Ward–Belmont College alumni Presidential Medal of Freedom recipients Women centenarians