Graham suffered from failing health in the mid-90s, causing him to enter a nursing home.<ref name=":1" /> On January 24, 1997, Graham died in [[Glendale, California|Glendale]] at the age of 6575, due to complications from a stroke six weeks earlier.<ref name="mike">{{cite web|url=http://www.mikemooneyham.com/pages/viewfull.cfm?ObjectID=059DFFB9-A900-459E-A0CEDCD98F4267F1|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081113224723/http://www.mikemooneyham.com/pages/viewfull.cfm?ObjectID=059DFFB9-A900-459E-A0CEDCD98F4267F1|title=Dr. Jerry Graham Tortured Soul|author=Mooneyham, Mike|publisher=The Wrestling Gospel|access-date=June 23, 2019|date=February 9, 1997|archive-date=November 13, 2008}}</ref><ref name=":4" />
He was posthumously inducted into the [[WWE Hall of Fame]] as a part of the Legacy wing on March 31, 2017.<ref name="Legacy2017" />
