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    • Jan 15, 1920
    Yvonne King is born in Ephraim, Utah. She joins her siblings to form The King Sisters, a pop vocal group that also finds a home in the Top 10 of the country charts with a 1946 recording of "Divorce Me C.O.D."
    Aug 17, 1940
    Pop pianist Buddy Cole marries Yvonne King. He's destined to play on at least two country hits with not-so-blissful marital themes: Margaret Whiting & Jimmy Wakely's "Slipping Around" and The King Sisters' "Divorce Me C.O.D."
    Aug 4, 1943
    Piano player Buddy Cole and Yvonne King have a daughter, Tina Cole, in Hollywood. Dad goes on to play on country hits by Jimmy Wakely and The King Sisters
    Feb 12, 1957
    The King Sisters' Yvonne King marries Delmore Courtney, a decade after the pop group earned its only country hit, "Divorce Me C.O.D."
    Aug 22, 1966
    Pop vocalist Yvonne King divorces her second husband, Delmore Courtney. The split comes 20 years after The King Sisters recorded their only country hit, the appropriately titled "Divorce Me C.O.D."
    Sep 3, 1966
    Twelve days after the dissolution of her previous marriage, Yvonne King marries Bill Burch. The King Sisters had a lone country hit 20 years prior: "Divorce Me C.O.D."
    Oct 1, 2005
    Bill Burch dies. He was the third husband of Yvonne King, who sang as a member of The King Sisters on the 1946 country hit "Divorce Me C.O.D."
    Dec 13, 2009
    Yvonne King dies in Santa Barbara. Her family group, The King Sisters, earned a country hit with its 1946 remake of Merle Travis' "Divorce Me C.O.D."
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