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Jan 25, 1963
Kansas City disc jockey "Cactus" Jack Call dies in a car accident. To raise money for his family, several country artists perform a benefit concert in March, including Patsy Cline, Cowboy Copas, Hawkshaw Hawkins, Dottie West and George Jones
Mar 5, 1963
A plane crash in Camden, Tennessee, claims the lives of Patsy Cline, Cowboy Copas, Hawkshaw Hawkins and pilot Randy Hughes as they return to Nashville from a charity concert in Kansas City
Mar 7, 1963
Jack Anglin dies in an auto accident on the way to Patsy Cline's memorial service in Nashville. A former member of The Anglin Brothers trio, he joined Johnnie Wright to create Johnnie & Jack, earning hits from 1951-1958
Mar 29, 1963
Texas Ruby dies in a trailer fire in Nashville while her husband, Curly Fox, is playing the Grand Ole Opry. The two began working together in the 1930s, becoming a significant touring act the following decade
Aug 14, 1964
Singer/songwriter Johnny Burnette drowns in a boating accident on California's Clear Lake. With his Rock 'N' Roll Trio in the mid-1950s, he helped define rockabilly. The Trio's "The Train Kept A-Rollin'" will be named one of the 500 greatest country singles in history in the 2003 Country Music Foundation book "Heartaches By The Number"
Aug 17, 1964
Debbie Lee Rogers, the adopted Korean daughter of Roy Rogers and Dale Evans, dies in a Sunday School bus accident in San Clemente, California
Jun 20, 1965
Ira Louvin and his wife, Anne, die in an automobile accident headed east on Interstate 70 in Callaway County, Missouri. His car is hit by another car headed west. Several open alcohol bottles are discovered in the westbound auto
Oct 31, 1965
Sandy Rogers, the adopted son of Roy Rogers and Dale Evans, dies from choking on his own vomit after an alcohol binge in Frankfurt, Germany, where he was stationed with the Army
Dec 10, 1967
Soul singer Otis Redding dies in a plane crash near Madison, Wisconsin. Just a month later, "(Sittin' On) The Dock Of The Bay" becomes his biggest recording. The song is later remade as a country hit by Waylon Jennings & Willie Nelson
Jan 1, 1968
Little Jimmy Dickens' wife, Ernestine, dies in a car accident in Sherman, Texas, when her car veers off an icy overpass
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