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• Akeman, David 'Stringbean'    b. June 17, 1916  d. November 10, 1973
  Comedian, Country Musician. One of the top musical stars of Nashville, Tennessee' Grand Old Opry during his career, he is best known for being one of the original members the comedy and country music television variety show "Hee Haw", which he starred in from 1969 until his murder in 1973. He and his wife were killed by burglars, who had heard rumors about them storing cash in his house, and laid in wait until the Akemans arrived home from the Ryman Auditorium (where the Grand Ole Opry was...[Read More] (Bio by: Steve Williams)
  Forest Lawn Memorial Gardens, Goodlettsville, Davidson County, Tennessee, USA
   
• Anglin, Jack    b. May 13, 1916  d. March 8, 1963
  Country Musician. Born in Columbia, Tennessee, began his music career with his brothers, performing as the Anglin Brothers, in the 1930s. In 1939, he joined Johnnie Wright and performed as ‘The Happy Roving Cowboys with Jack Anglin'. As a duo, they became ‘Johnnie and Jack', which had success performing on the Grand Ole Opry, recording and touring. He was killed at age 46, in an auto accident while on the way to Patsy Cline's funeral. (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
  Forest Lawn Memorial Gardens, Goodlettsville, Davidson County, Tennessee, USA
  Plot: Garden of Last Supper
   
• Baker, Judy    b. August 9, 1924  d. February 25, 2000
  Country Music's Hostess.
  Forest Lawn Memorial Gardens, Goodlettsville, Davidson County, Tennessee, USA
  Plot: Music Row
   
• Copas, Lloyd    b. July 15, 1913  d. March 5, 1963
  Country Musician. Patsy Cline had participated in a benefit concert in Kansas City for the family of a disc jockey ("Cactus" Jack Call) who had died in a car accident. Ramsey (Randy) Hughes, Patsy Cline, Hawkshaw Hawkins, and Cowboy (Lloyd) Copas, were all in Hughes Piper Comanche, when it crashed just west of Camden, TN in a hollow along a ridge line in a heavily wooded area known as Fatty Bottom, near a fire tower off Mule Barn Rd. in Sandy Point, about 5 miles west of the Tennessee River...[Read More] (Bio by: Bill Walker)
  Forest Lawn Memorial Gardens, Goodlettsville, Davidson County, Tennessee, USA
   
• Crawford, Jimmie    b. September 17, 1935  d. February 2, 2005
  Renowned Pedal Steel Guitar Musician. Growing up around country music, he began playing in area clubs with Donny Lytle, who would later become famous as Johnny Paycheck. Considered a world class innovative steel player, he also performed with artists Kitty Wells, George Jones, Loretta Lynn and Dolly Parton. After leaving the road in 1975, he became known as a respected teacher and guitar builder when he co-founded the JCH Steel Guitar Company. In the mid-1990s, he decided to perform again and...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
  Cause of death: Heart attack
  Forest Lawn Memorial Gardens, Goodlettsville, Davidson County, Tennessee, USA
   
• Foster, Bob
  Musician. Born Robert Lee Foster Jr. in 1929, he was a prominent country music steel guitar player in the 1950s. He was one of the busiest studio musicians of era, recording countless sessions with major stars such as George Morgan, Carl Smith, Jim Eanes, Kenny Roberts and Stonewall Jackson. He was noted for his signature song "Guitar Shuffle" and being on the early Patsy Cline records "A Church, A Courtroom" and "Goodbye". He also toured with Red Foley, Kitty Wells, Webb Pierce and Gene Autry...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
  Forest Lawn Memorial Gardens, Goodlettsville, Davidson County, Tennessee, USA
  Plot: 127 A 2&4
   
• Frizzell, Lefty (William Orville)    b. March 31, 1928  d. July 19, 1975
  Country Singer. With one of the most distinctive voices in country music, his relaxed style was a major influence on musicians such as Merle Haggard, Willie Nelson, Roy Orbison and Randy Travis. Between 1950 and 1953 he had thirteen hit records, writing and performing songs that have become standards in country music. His hits included "Mom and Dad's Waltz," "Saginaw Michigan, "I Love You a Thousand Ways," "Always Late." and "Long Black Veil," later recorded by Johnny Cash. He performed at...[Read More] (Bio by: Dan)
  Cause of death: Stroke
  Forest Lawn Memorial Gardens, Goodlettsville, Davidson County, Tennessee, USA
   
• Harper, Herman    b. December 31, 1938  d. December 17, 1993
  Singer. Born in Fountain Head, Tennessee, he was a pioneering gospel vocalist known for his deep bass voice. From the late 1950s through the 1960s, he was bass singer for the Oak Ridge Quartet and was instrumental in getting live coverage of gospel music on the Grand Ole Opry and other cable television broadcasts. He is the founder of the Gospel Music Trust Fund and he created the Harper and Associates-a leading Southern Gospel talent agency in 1985. In 1997, he was posthumously inducted into...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
  Forest Lawn Memorial Gardens, Goodlettsville, Davidson County, Tennessee, USA
   
• Hawkins, Hawkshaw    b. December 22, 1923  d. March 5, 1963
  Country Musician. Patsy Cline had participated in a benefit concert in Kansas City for the family of a disc jockey ("Cactus" Jack Call) who had died in a car accident. Ramsey (Randy) Hughes, Patsy Cline, Hawkshaw Hawkins, and Cowboy Copas, were all in Hughes Piper Comanche, when it crashed just west of Camden, TN in a hollow along a ridge line in a heavily wooded area known as Fatty Bottom, near a fire tower off Mule Barn Rd. in Sandy Point, about 5 miles west of the Tennessee River. The...[Read More] (Bio by: Bill Walker)
  Forest Lawn Memorial Gardens, Goodlettsville, Davidson County, Tennessee, USA
   
• Helms, Don (Donald) Hugh    b. February 28, 1927  d. August 11, 2008
  Donald Hugh Helms, musician, music publisher, songwriter, booking agent, founding member of Reunion Of Professional Entertainers, and country music steel guitarist for Hank Williams, Loretta Lynn, Lefty Frizzell, Patsy Cline, Jett Williams, Hank Williams, Jr. & Johnny Cash. He served in the Army in 1945 and was inducted into the Steel Guitar Hall Of Fame in 1984. (Bio by: Carol STEVENS)
  Forest Lawn Memorial Gardens, Goodlettsville, Davidson County, Tennessee, USA
   
• Hughes, Randy    b. September 11, 1928  d. March 5, 1963
  Patsy Cline had participated in a benefit concert in Kansas City for the family of a disc jockey ("Cactus" Jack Call) who had died in a car accident. Ramsey (Randy) Hughes, Patsy Cline, Hawkshaw Hawkins, and Cowboy Copas, were all in Hughes Piper Comanche, when it crashed just west of Camden, TN in a hollow along a ridge line in a heavily wooded area known as Fatty Bottom, near a fire tower off Mule Barn Rd. in Sandy Point, about 5 miles west of the Tennessee River. The plane had left...[Read More] (Bio by: Bill Walker)
  Forest Lawn Memorial Gardens, Goodlettsville, Davidson County, Tennessee, USA
   
• Inman, Robert Autry    b. January 6, 1929  d. September 6, 1988
  Robert Autry Inman was a Grand Ole Opry member and Country Music songwriter. He first performed with Cowboy Copas among others and eventually performed as Autry Inman and the Inmates. He is listed in the Alabama Country Music Hall of Fame and holds the record for "most songs written ad recorded in a single year". (Bio by: boyce owen)
  Forest Lawn Memorial Gardens, Goodlettsville, Davidson County, Tennessee, USA
   
• Kirby, Beecher 'Brother Oswald'    b. December 26, 1911  d. October 17, 2002
  Musician. Born Beecher Ray Kirby, he was a Dobro guitar and banjo player best known as Bashful Brother Beecher. In 1934, taking the stage name Pete Kirby, he joined Roy Acuff's Crazy Tennesseans in 1934, which became the Smoky Mountain Boys. In 1939, the Smoky Mountain Boys joined the cast of the Grand Ole Opry and until Acuff's death in 1992, he remained a member of the band. During the coarse of his career, he also was a solo artist and a session musician, recording with artist Jerry Douglas...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
  Forest Lawn Memorial Gardens, Goodlettsville, Davidson County, Tennessee, USA
   
• Stuart Jr., Joe Earl    b. February 7, 1928  d. September 13, 1987
  Bluegrass Musician. One of bluegrass legend Bill Monroe's Bluegrass Boys. His first musical gig was on Knoxville's Cas Walker radio show. He then worked with Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs's Foggy Mountain Boys. He then joined up with Bill Monroe at the Grand Ole Opry as one of the Bluegrass Boys. He knew how to play practically every bluegrass instrument, but due to a collarbone injury at the time, he was a fill-in mandolin player. However, he recorded with Bill Monroe on all the other...[Read More] (Bio by: Heather from VA)
  Cause of death: Cancer
  Forest Lawn Memorial Gardens, Goodlettsville, Davidson County, Tennessee, USA
   
• Sullivan, Johnny 'Lonzo'    b. July 7, 1917  d. June 5, 1967
  Comedian. He was the second 'Lonzo' of the "Lonzo and Oscar" Opry comedy team. He was the brother of Oscar Sullivan. On his marker all it says is "Johnny" and has music notes around the name.
  Cause of death: Heart attack
  Forest Lawn Memorial Gardens, Goodlettsville, Davidson County, Tennessee, USA
  Plot: 274 B-1
   
• Summey, Tex (James Clell) 'Cousin Jody'    b. December 11, 1919  d. August 18, 1975
  He was a country comedian from the Grand Ole Opry. He did a lot of the comedy routines with Lonzo & Oscar, another comedy Opry act, as well as his own. He was famous for wearing unusual clothes and playing a dobro guitar.
  Cause of death: Heart attack
  Forest Lawn Memorial Gardens, Goodlettsville, Davidson County, Tennessee, USA
  Plot: Music Row section, in front of Lefty Frizzell's grave
   
• Widener, James Phillip   b. March 12, 1918  d. November 27, 1973
  Musician who played rhythm guitar with Hank Snow. He was murdered a week after Stringbean was murdered. He is said to have made comment about Stringbean's murder saying: When music people die it usually comes in threes, I wonder who will be next"? He was killed himself the following week.
  Cause of death: Murdered
  Forest Lawn Memorial Gardens, Goodlettsville, Davidson County, Tennessee, USA
  Plot: Back of cemetery, lined up behind the main statue of Jesus
   
• Wiggins, Roy 'Little Roy'    b. June 27, 1926  d. August 3, 1999
  Musician. Born Ivan Leroy Wiggins in in Nashville, Tennessee, he liked Hawaiian and country music and quickly became proficient on the lap steel guitar. Dubbed "Little Roy", he started playing with Paul Howard and his Arkansas Cotton Pickers on the famed Grand Ole Opry radio show at age 14. In the 1940s, he performed with Pee Wee King, George Morgan, and on Eddie Arnold's hit records such as "I'll Hold You in My Heart", "Anytime" and Bouquet of Roses". With Eddie Arnold for 25 years, on his own...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
  Forest Lawn Memorial Gardens, Goodlettsville, Davidson County, Tennessee, USA
  Plot: unmarked grave [unmarked]
   

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