Diane Keaton’s bereaved family has revealed the cause of her death at age 79.

The Annie Hall star died of pneumonia on Oct. 11, her family said in a statement to PEOPLE magazine.

“The Keaton family are very grateful for the extraordinary messages of love and support they have received these past few days on behalf of their beloved Diane, who passed away from pneumonia on October 11,” they said.

“She loved her animals and she was steadfast in her support of the unhoused community, so any donations in her memory to a local food bank or an animal shelter would be a wonderful and much appreciated tribute to her,” they added.

Keaton is survived by her daughter Dexter, 29, and Duke, 25, whom she adopted when she was in her 50s. Though she never married—telling PEOPLE in 2019 that she was alw

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