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    • Oct 9, 1996
    Mark Collie hosts his third annual Celebrity Race for Diabetes at the Nashville Speedway. Participants include: Faith Hill, The Mavericks, Tanya Tucker, David Lee Murphy, Terri Clark, Tim McGraw, Brooks & Dunn and Tracy Lawrence
    Mar 10, 1997
    R&B singer LaVern Baker dies in New York City of a diabetes-related heart attack. Nearly four decades prior, she scored a pop hit with "I Cried A Tear," re-recorded for the country audience by Ernest Tubb
    Jul 4, 1997
    Songwriter John Jarrard, battling diabetes, has a kidney transplant at Nashville's Saint Thomas Hospital. His left leg is amputated below the knee months later. Among his songs: "Blue Clear Sky," "Money In The Bank" and "There's No Way"
    Oct 7, 1997
    Johnny Darrell dies of complications from diabetes in Kennesaw, Georgia. He earned country hits with "Ruby, Don't Take Your Love To Town" and "With Pen In Hand"
    Jul 15, 1998
    Actor and songwriter Hal Southern dies in Vista, California, from diabetes-related causes. He appeared in such movies as "Blazing Saddles" and "The Shakiest Gun In The West," and co-wrote Tex Ritter's "I Dreamed Of A Hill-Billy Heaven"
    Aug 23, 1998
    Grover "Big Jeff" Bess dies in Nashville, following a battle with diabetes. He co-owned Tootsie's Orchid Lounge--a legendary hangout for Willie Nelson, Faron Young, Marty Robbins and Mel Tillis--until he ceded it to wife Tootsie Bess in a divorce
    Oct 7, 1998
    Driving in the fifth annual Mark Collie Race for Diabetes: Brooks & Dunn, Tim McGraw, Faith Hill, Aaron Tippin, Terry McBride, and Ricochet members Heath Wright, Jeff Bryant, Teddy Carr, Greg Cook and Eddie Kilgallon
    Oct 26, 1999
    Ricochet's Heath Wright crashes into a wall at the Nashville Speedway, while taking practice laps for the Mark Collie Celebrity Race for Diabetes Cure. He still appears in the event the next evening
    Oct 27, 1999
    Mark Collie holds his annual celebrity race for diabetes at the Nashville Speedway. Drivers include Kix Brooks, Ronnie Dunn, John Michael Montgomery, Chely Wright, Anita Cochran, Billy Ray Cyrus, Rodney Crowell, Aaron Tippin and Gary Chapman
    Oct 11, 2000
    Mark Collie holds his annual Celebrity Race for a Cure at the Nashville Speedway, with fellow drivers Brooks & Dunn, Deana Carter and Dean Sams, of Lonestar



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