 Upon his sudden death caused by a massive heart attack on November 13, 1933, Frank Yount’s estate was valued at over $8 million, and when the stockholders sold Yount-Lee on July 31, 1935, the sale amounted to $46.2 million, putting it as the third largest financial transaction in the United States to that point.Yount, a regent of the University of Texas, was survived by his wife, Pansy, and their adopted daughter, Mildred Frank.He is buried at Beaumont's Magnolia Cemetery.