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    • Aug 3, 1959
    Johnny Horton's father, John "Lolly" Horton, dies in Rusk, Texas
    May 19, 1961
    Ottis Dewey Whitman dies in Florida. His survivors include son Slim Whitman, a yodeling country singer
    Aug 3, 1961
    Mary Carlisle, the mother of Bill and Cliff Carlisle, dies
    Aug 2, 1963
    Author Oliver La Farge dies at Bataan Memorial Hospital in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Son Peter La Farge earns a country hit as a songwriter the following year when Johnny Cash records "The Ballad Of Ira Hayes"
    Aug 26, 1963
    Fannie Tate Colley dies from a heart attack in Centerville, Tennessee. She was the mother of Sarah Cannon, better known as Grand Ole Opry comedian Minnie Pearl
    Oct 26, 1964
    Actress Belle Montrose dies of a heart attack in Hollywood. She is the mother of TV personality Steve Allen, who wrote the 1950 crossover hit "Let's Go To Church (Next Sunday Morning)," recorded by Margaret Whiting & Jimmy Wakely
    Jun 5, 1965
    Gram Parsons' mother, Avis Parsons, dies of alcohol-related cirrhosis of the liver in Winter Haven, Florida. Her death coincides with Gram's high-school graduation
    Dec 19, 1966
    Claudia Horton Pryor, the mother of the late Johnny Horton, dies in a Jacksonville, Texas, hospital following a short illness
    Sep 7, 1967
    George Jones' dad, George, dies
    Sep 18, 1967
    Kitty Wells' mother, Myrtle Deason, dies



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