 Well, Shelley Duvall played in a number of other films, including Nashville and Popeye. Her life partner, Dan Gilroy, tells The Hollywood Reporter she died peacefully in her sleep at her home in Blanco, Texas, after suffering from complications from diabetes. An update today on the death of a woman in a Capitol Hill park yesterday morning. D.C. police say 35-year-old Sarah Noah of Southeast D.C. was the one who died after she was hit by a falling tree limb.