Is   she still alive?

The Wheel of Fortune has been kind to Jo Stafford. She is retired and
living in California.

"Jo semi-retired in 1966 and left the music business completely in
1975, making only one more public appearance, in 1990, to honor Frank
Sinatra. [Her husband] Paul Weston died in 1996. Jo Stafford currently
lives in California."

Solid!: Jo Stafford
http://www.parabrisas.com/d_staffordj.html

Here you'll find a nice bio of Jo Stafford:
 
The Free Dictionary: Jo Stafford
http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Jo%20Stafford

More on Jo Stafford:

The Iceberg: Jo Stafford
http://www.theiceberg.com/artist/598/jo_stafford.html

Jo's Page: Read About Jo
http://www2.netdoor.com/~stout/JosPage/joread.htm

Google search strategy:

Google Web Search: "jo stafford" + "bio OR biography"
://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&q=%22jo+stafford%22+bio+OR+biography

I hope this information is helpful. If anything is unclear, or if a
link doesn't work for you, please request clarification; I'll be glad
to offer further assistance before you rate my answer.

Best wishes,
pinkfreud

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Clarification of Answer by pinkfreud-ga on 20 Aug 2004 13:33 PDT

NOTE:

In my remark that the Wheel of Fortune had been kind to Jo Stafford, I
did not mean to imply that Ms. Stafford was the singer of the great
song 'Wheel of Fortune'. That was the inimitable Kay Starr, of course.

~pinkfreud

When I was in hospital in December '02, I had a lovely nurse called
(would you believe?) Jo Stafford.

Unfortunately, she thought I'd gone mad when I started singing 'Shrimp
Boats Are A-Coming, Their Sails are in Sight ...'

That was just before she stabbed me with the hyperdermic syringe.

Ouch!