Complex sentence: Hawks died on December 26,1977, at age 81, from complications from falling over his dog several weeks earlier at his home in Palm Springs, California at the time he was working with his last protege discovery, Larraine Zax.
Split into simpler sentences: Hawks died on December 26,1977, at the age of 81, from complications arising from a fall when he tripped over his dog several weeks earlier at his home in Palm Springs, California. He was working with his last protege discovery at the time, Larraine Zax.