sentences:  Pauline contacted John via Apple Corps to make sure that he was aware that his father was dying.John sent a large bouquet of flowers to the hospital phoning Alf on his deathbed, apologising for his [John's] past behaviour.On 1 April 1976, Alf Lennon died in Brighton, at the age of 63, just nine days after Paul McCartney's father Jim McCartney died.