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    • Feb 21, 1939
    Laura Etta Travis, the mother of Country Music Hall of Famer Merle Travis, dies
    Dec 20, 1942
    Merle Travis' father, William Robert Travis, dies
    Feb 13, 1943
    Tammy Wynette's father, William Hollice Pugh, dies from a brain tumor, less than a year after her birth
    Apr 29, 1943
    Roy Acuff's father, judge Neill Acuff, dies from ulcers at St. Mary's Hospital in Knoxville
    Mar 14, 1944
    John Pink Miller, the father of Emmett Miller, dies in Macon, Georgia. Emmett Miller was a vaudevillian who greatly influenced Jimmie Rodgers
    Nov 11, 1944
    Mehmet Ertegun, the Turkish ambassador to the United States, dies of a heart attack in Washington, D.C. Three years later, Atlantic Records is founded by his sons, Nesuhi and Ahmet Ergetun. Ahmet goes on to write Mickey Gilley's "Chains Of Love"
    Nov 3, 1945
    James Wagner dies in a plane crash in the Berkshire Mountains near Wingdale, New York. Wagner is the biological father of the future Priscilla Presley
    Sep 20, 1948
    Lena Miller, the mother of vaudevillian performer Emmett Miller, dies in her Macon, Georgia, home, two weeks after suffering a stroke. Referred to as the singer with a "clarinet voice," Emmett Miller was a major influence on Jimmie Rodgers
    Nov 13, 1948
    Harry Nolan, the father of The Sons Of The Pioneers' Bob Nolan, dies of coronary sclerosis in California
    Jan 9, 1949
    Martha Annie Brown dies. She was the mother of Milton and Derwood Brown, members of the western swing band Milton Brown's Musical Brownies



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