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    • Jul 8, 1983
    Ferlin Husky has a heart attack in Seattle
    Aug 6, 1983
    Ferlin Husky is discharged from Virginia Mason Hospital in Seattle a month after he suffered a heart attack. Tests indicate Husky is not in need of a bypass operation
    Aug 15, 1983
    Songwriter Chuck Howard dies of heart disease at Nashville's Baptist Hospital. His credits include Conway Twitty's "Happy Birthday Darlin'," Waylon Jennings' "Come With Me" and Merle Haggard's "I'm Always On A Mountain When I Fall"
    Nov 8, 1983
    "Hee Haw" star Junior Samples is released from Atlanta's Northside Hospital after treatment for a heart ailment
    Nov 19, 1983
    Pop songwriter Carolyn Leigh dies of a heart attack in New York City. Seventeen years later, her best-known song, "Young At Heart," is revived by Willie Nelson and included on the "Space Cowboys" soundtrack
    Jan 21, 1984
    R&B vocalist Jackie Wilson dies of a heart attack in New Jersey nine years after suffering a stroke during a concert. Wilson had a hit in the 1950s with "Lonely Teardrops," remade for the country audience in 1976 by Narvel Felts
    Jan 28, 1984
    Al Dexter dies of a heart attack in Denton, Texas. His career, which included both western swing and honky-tonk, was best known for 1944's "Pistol Packin' Mama"
    Jul 17, 1984
    Roy Acuff is hospitalized for 11 days when a bout with angina causes chest pains
    Jul 28, 1984
    Roy Acuff is released from the hospital after an 11-day stay, following severe chest pains caused by angina
    Jan 28, 1985
    Appalachian fiddler Tommy Jarrell dies from heart failure in Mount Airy, North Carolina. Three years earlier, he received a National Heritage Fellowship honor from the National Endowment for the Arts



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