$4,000 in Frederick, Maryland where he raised his family, using the money he had received as part of an award for his rickettsial research to make the necessary downpayment. His children were each given the task of raising an American Angus bull to help pay for their college education. By the time of Huebner's death in 1998, the farm was operated by three of his children. Huebner died at age 84 due to pneumonia on August 26, 1998, at the Veterans Administration Medical Center in Coatesville, Pennsylvania, where he had been a resident since 1991. He had been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in the early 1980s. He was survived by his second wife, Harriet, as well as by six daughters, two sons and 11 grandchildren. His first marriage had ended in divorce. References 1914 births 1998 deaths American public health doctors American virologists People with Alzheimer's disease Deaths from pneumonia in Pennsylvania National Medal of Science laureates People from Frederick, Maryland People from Cheviot, Ohio Saint Louis University alumni University of Cincinnati alumni Xavier University alumni 20th-century American physicians Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences