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Jan 17, 1998
Songwriter/manager/musician/radio personality Cliffie Stone dies of a heart attack at his home in Santa Clarita, California. A co-writer of "Divorce Me C.O.D." and "So Round, So Firm, So Fully Packed," he played on hits by Merle Travis, Tex Ritter and Hank Thompson, and joined the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1989
May 14, 1998
Frank Sinatra dies at Los Angeles' Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, following a heart attack. One of the iconic vocalists of the 20th century, he included two country performers--Lorrie Morgan and Willie Nelson--on his 1994 release "Duets II"
May 21, 1998
Bobbie Traywick, the mother of Randy Travis, dies of an apparent heart attack at home in Marshville, North Carolina
Jun 15, 1998
Record executive Lew Chudd dies of heart failure in Los Angeles. He built Imperial Records, which had success with Ricky Nelson, Fats Domino, Johnny Rivers, Lightnin' Hopkins and Slim Whitman
Jun 23, 1998
Robert Brian Butler, a concert sound engineer for Brooks & Dunn, dies in Orlando, Florida, of a heart attack
Jul 6, 1998
Roy Rogers dies of heart failure in Apple Valley, California. The King of the Cowboys was the only performer elected twice to the Country Music Hall of Fame--once as a solo artist, once as a member of The Sons Of The Pioneers
Jul 12, 1998
Songwriter Jimmy Driftwood dies of heart failure at a hospital in Fayetteville, Arkansas. Briefly a member of the Grand Ole Opry, he is best remembered for writing Johnny Horton's "The Battle Of New Orleans" and Eddy Arnold's "Tennessee Stud"
Aug 5, 1998
Guitarist Eldon Shamblin dies of heart failure in Sapulpa, Oklahoma. A member of Bob Wills' Texas Playboys, he played on such classics as "Faded Love," "San Antonio Rose" and "Cherokee Maiden." He also toured with Merle Haggard
Aug 24, 1998
Comedian Jerry Clower dies after heart bypass surgery in Jackson, Mississippi. The Grand Ole Opry member earned a reputation for Southern-bred humor revolving around Yazoo City, Mississippi, and the fictitious Ledbetter family
Sep 26, 1998
William Robbins Jr. dies of a massive heart attack in Georgia. He was the father of BlackHawk's Dave Robbins
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