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Boehm kept a large collection of exotic birds in extensive aviaries and tropical houses at his home in
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in Rome was named in his memory. This was the first time in its 500-year history that one of the 13 museums in the
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Marshall Boehm died from a heart attack on January 29, 1969, aged 55. His widow, Helen Boehm, died in 2010, aged 89. The couple is interred at Saint Mary's Cemetery, Trenton, Mercer County, New Jersey.
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