Barbara Sinatra: Ol’ Blue Eyes’ Wife Dead At 90

Barbara Sinatra has passed away at the age of 90 in Rancho Mirage, Calif. — having found her own fame as "Lady Blue Eyes" while fiercely taking care of husband Frank Sinatra!  

Showbiz insiders gave Barbara full credit for hard-living Frank making it to 82 years old before passing away on May 14, 1998. She protected him like a mother hen — even screening his phone calls. "Barbara's the driving force behind his survival," revealed a friend.

Old age took a terrible toll on Frank in his final years. His hearing was failing, he often became confused, and he was in constant pain from a series of surgeries. "Without her," a friend told The ENQUIRER in Frank's final years, "Frank would be completely lost."

Frank was buried in a plot next to the grave of his beloved mother Dolly in the Desert Memorial Park near Palm Spring. An adjoining plot had already set aside for Barbara — who recounted the death of her husband in her autobiography "Lady Blue Eyes."

She wrote of finding Frank on an emergency room gurney in a cubicle with three doctors in attendance. Gripping his hand she told him: “You’ve got to fight.” Instead, she wrote: “Briefly, his eyes flickered open. They were watery but still the same dazzling blue."

"Leaning closer," she wrote, "turning my head to hear, I heard him whisper the words, ‘I can’t.’ Then his eyes closed for­ever, and that was it. That was the end.”