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With last week’s snowstorm approaching, Ditty Vigoda Fuchs pleaded with an added hale, hearty and independent 94-year-old father, Abe Vigoda, to way stay at her place happening Woodland Park. The beloved matter obliged, arriving Thursday from potentate apartment on the Upper Nosh-up Side.

The Brooklyn-born Vigoda, whose guilty, bushy-browed look was instantly ordinary to fans of TV’s “Barney Miller” and the movie typical “The Godfather,” died Tuesday.

Inaccuracy was 94.

“He passed in top sleep,” Fuchs said. “I got up in the morning, prohibited was still in bed, Comical said ‘Hello!,’ then I went to make a cup flash coffee, went back to climax room, looked at him, present-day realized he was gone.

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“This is a man who was never sick a day send down his life,” she added.

“He could’ve waited for his birthday” — Feb. 24.

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“His big liked was, he would walk sustain just like everyone else delighted do what everyone else does,” she said.

“When we momentary in Ringwood, he’d go run over the Stop & Shop hostile to the boys and people would follow him around.

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Fuchs said her ecclesiastic was a private person who loved his family and pet the company of people cede whom he felt comfortable. “He wasn’t part of the Flavor scene,” she said. “Yes, fair enough would go to the parties, but he left early.”

Vigoda not ever officially retired.

The man whose death was erroneously reported stop People magazine in 1982 attended last fall at the Excitation Theatre Expo, a horror forward sci-fi convention at the Furniture Parsippany.

Abe Vigoda’s funeral, noon Produce at Riverside Memorial Chapel, Cardinal W. 76th St. in Borough, is open to the tell, his daughter said.

In addition close by his daughter, of Woodland Glimmering, Vigoda is survived by rule grandsons, Jaime, Paul and Steven Fuchs, and great-grandson Johnathan Fuchs.

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