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    • Feb 22, 1966
    Wilma Lee Cooper & Stoney finish a 34-concert tour of U.S. military bases in Germany with guitar player Joe Edwards and songwriter L.E. White
    Oct 4, 1969
    Stoney Cooper checks in at Nashville's Baptist Hospital with pneumonia
    Apr 22, 1972
    An ailing Stoney Cooper is a scratch for the night's Grand Ole Opry show at Nashville's Ryman Auditorium. Wife Wilma Lee Cooper plays solo during the evening, which begins with Stonewall Jackson singing "Don't Be Angry" and ends with Charlie Walker performing "Little Old Wine Drinker Me"
    Oct 7, 1976
    Grand Ole Opry member Stoney Cooper participates in his last Nashville recording session, joining wife and duet partner Wilma Lee Cooper on "You Are My Flower" and "Wildwood Flower" at the Gusto Recording Studio
    Jan 22, 1977
    Stoney Cooper makes what proves to be his final appearance on the Grand Ole Opry
    Feb 4, 1977
    Stoney Cooper, of the Grand Ole Opry duo Wilma Lee Cooper & Stoney, is hospitalized in Nashville with a heart ailment, a pinched nerve, phlebitis and emphysema. He dies the following month
    Mar 22, 1977
    Stoney Cooper dies in Nashville. Along with wife Wilma Cooper, he spent three decades as part of one of country music's strongest duos. They joined the Grand Ole Opry in 1957 and grabbed three Top 10 hits in 1959, including "There's A Big Wheel"
    Jan 15, 1983
    Celebrating the 50th anniversary of "Jamboree U.S.A.," Wheeling's Capitol Music Hall installs 50 artists in its new Walkway of Stars. Among them: Mac Wiseman, Dick Curless, Glenn Reeves, Stoney Cooper & Wilma Lee, Pete Cassell and Billy "Crash" Craddock
    Mar 14, 2003
    The Country Music Foundation publishes "Heartaches By The Number," celebrating country's "500 greatest singles." Wilma Lee & Stoney Cooper appear on the list with their version of a Hank Williams tune, "Are You Walking And A-Talking For The Lord"
    Nov 6, 2008
    Red Sovine and Charlie McCoy are inducted into the West Virginia Music Hall of Fame at the Cultural Center Theater in Charleston. Also added: Wilma Lee & Stoney Cooper, Frankie Yankovic, The Lilly Brothers and Don Stover
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