Pamela Payton-Wright died in 2019, aged 78, from Alzheimer's. She was survived by her son (Oliver Dickon Hedley Butler); daughter-in-law (Cynthia Flowers); three siblings (Gordon Trafford Payton Wright, Brenda Payton-Wright Davies, and Barbara Payton-Wright Quackenbush), and two nephews (Payton David Quackenbush and Peter Wright Quackenbush).