<P> During the wave of monster - related merchandising in the late 1950s and 1960s, it was usually Glenn Strange's iconic image used for the Monster on toys, games and paraphernalia, most often from his appearance in the Abbott & Costello film . In 1969, The New York Times mistakenly published Boris Karloff's obituary with Glenn Strange's picture as the Frankenstein monster . </P> <P> Strange was 6 ft 5 in tall and weighed 220 lbs . His first wife was Flora Hooper of Duncan, Oklahoma . They had two daughters, Wynema and Juanita . He was married from 1937 to his death in 1973 to his third wife, Minnie Thompson (1911--2004). The couple had two children, Harry Glenn Strange (born 1938) and Janine Laraine Strange (born 1939). </P> <P> On September 20, 1973, at age 74, Strange died of lung cancer in Los Angeles, California . Singer Eddie Dean, with whom Strange had collaborated on various songs and opening themes for films, sang at Strange's funeral service as a final tribute . Strange is interred at Forest Lawn - Hollywood Hills Cemetery . In 1975, two years after Strange's death, his Gunsmoke costar Buck Taylor named his third son Cooper Glenn Taylor after Strange . </P>

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