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Jun 20, 1999
Victory Shaver, the mother of singer/songwriter Billy Joe Shaver, dies of cancer
Aug 5, 1999
TV producer Gene Weed dies of lung cancer in Los Angeles. He was a longtime producer of the Academy of Country Music awards and produced the NBC-TV show "Hot Country Nights"
Aug 6, 1999
Garth Brooks' mother, Colleen, dies in Oklahoma of throat cancer
Sep 16, 1999
Singer/songwriter John Prine confirms in The Tennessean that he had an operation for cancer in January 1998. The critically acclaimed performer wrote the Don Williams hit "Love Is On A Roll" and George Strait's "I Just Want To Dance With You"
Oct 2, 1999
Songwriter Danny Mayo is found dead of a diabetes-related heart attack on his 49th birthday at a Ramada Inn in Nashville. Mayo wrote Tracy Byrd's "The Keeper Of The Stars," Pirates Of The Mississippi's "Feed Jake" and Alabama's "If I Had You"
Oct 25, 1999
Steel guitar player Earl "Joaquin" Murphey dies of cancer in Los Angeles. The West Coast swing musician contributed to hits by Merle Travis, Spade Cooley, Tex Williams and The Sons Of The Pioneers
Nov 8, 1999
Gwen Gordy dies of cancer at her San Diego home. She was a co-writer on the Jackie Wilson R&B hit "Lonely Teardrops," which found new life in country music when Narvel Felts remade it in 1976
Feb 4, 2000
After fighting skin cancer for more than a year, Van Stephenson announces his departure from BlackHawk
Mar 24, 2000
Steel guitarist and executive Joe Talbot dies in Nashville of lung cancer. A publisher and owner of a record pressing plant, he performed with Hank Snow from 1950-1954, appearing on "(Now And Then There's) A Fool Such As I" and "I'm Moving On"
Apr 7, 2000
Jack Nance, the author of "It's Only Make Believe," dies of lung cancer at Centennial Medical Center in Nashville. The song was a pop hit for Conway Twitty, and a country hit for Ronnie McDowell
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