 Tomlinson died the following year at Meanskinisht, of hardening of the arteries, at 71 years of age.His son's extensive memoirs, recorded by his wife, Roxie Irene Tomlinson, onto reel-to-reel tape, were later organized by their own son, George Tomlinson, into a fiction-style narrative of his life and work, written from Robert Jr.'s first-person perspective.Alice Arm and other similarly named features in that area are named for Tomlinson's wife, Alice Mary Tomlinson.