 In 1944, Nell Brinkley died after over 30 years of entertaining fans from the "most read newspapers".Her death went largely unnoticed under the crush of WWII news, but The Associated Press reported she passed in a New Rochelle hospital on the night of October 21, 1944 after a long illness.Brinkley, her mother and father are all buried in a New Rochelle, New York cemetery.