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Apr 27, 2003
Media executive Ed Gaylord dies of pancreatic cancer at his home in Oklahoma City. He established Gaylord Entertainment, which owned TNN, CMT and the Grand Ole Opry for much of the 1990s
May 2, 2003
John Mattea dies of cancer in West Virginia. He was the father of Kathy Mattea
Aug 22, 2003
Country Music Hall of Famer Floyd Tillman dies at his home in Bacliff, Texas, of leukemia. Responsible for such songs as "Slipping Around" and "I Love You So Much, It Hurts," he also earned a place in the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame
Sep 4, 2003
Country music historian Bob Pinson dies at Nashville's Saint Thomas Hospital of leukemia. Pinson helped build the Country Music Foundation's music library, which includes approximately 200,000 recordings
Sep 17, 2003
Singer/songwriter/actor Sheb Wooley dies at Nashville's Skyline Medical Center of leukemia. Known for "The Purple People Eater" and a series of parodies under the name Ben Colder, he wrote the "Hee Haw" theme song
Sep 26, 2003
Hughlene McWhorter Henley, the mother of The Eagles' Don Henley, dies of breast cancer in an East Texas hospital
Dec 19, 2003
The Tennessean reports singer/songwriter Randy Vanwarmer has had a bone marrow transplant at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle. Vanwarmer has written hits for Alabama, Michael Johnson and The Oak Ridge Boys
Jan 9, 2004
Freddy Fender cancels a pair of shows at Bally's in Tunica, Mississippi, to undergo a liver transplant, replacing a cancer-infected organ. Fender also had a kidney transplant two years previously
Jan 12, 2004
Singer/songwriter Randy Vanwarmer dies at the University of Washington Medical Center in Seattle of leukemia. He scored a pop hit with "Just When I Needed You Most," and wrote hits for Alabama, The Oak Ridge Boys and Michael Johnson
Mar 22, 2004
Bluegrass legend Jimmy Martin begins radiation treatments for cancer of the bladder
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