Nat King Cole ... of his life, Cole suffered from lung cancer, before passing away at the young age of 45 in 1965. Along with his legacy, the singer leaves behind his second wife Maria Cole ...

Nat “King” Cole, 45 ... Only the day before his death, Cole was taken for a short ride in his car by his wife, and a few days earlier he had visited his children briefly at the family home ...

Nat’s wife, Maria, once a singer with Duke Ellington’s band, wrote in her biography “I recall suddenly seeing at my neighbourhood news-stand, the glaring headline “Nat King Cole Dead Of Cancer” To ...