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    • Sep 12, 2008
    Charlie Walker dies of colon cancer in Hendersonville, Tennessee. A Grand Ole Opry star, he earned his biggest hit with the 1958 single "Pick Me Up On Your Way Down"
    Sep 26, 2008
    Charlie Garner, a 26-year member of Del Reeves' band The Goodtime Charlies, dies from brain cancer
    Oct 1, 2008
    "Ocean Front Property" songwriter Hank Cochran begins chemotherapy treatment weeks after surgery for pancreatic cancer
    Oct 15, 2008
    Sara Evans performs in Bloomington, Indiana, as NBC tapes "Skating For Life," a Peggy Fleming-hosted special generating money for cancer. The skaters include Johnny Weir, Sasha Cohen, Rudy Galindo and Emily Hughes
    Oct 25, 2008
    Sara Evans sings during the NBC special "Skating For Life." Peggy Fleming hosts the cancer fundraiser, which features performances of "As If," "Born To Fly," "Suds In The Bucket" and "I Could Not Ask For More"
    Nov 1, 2008
    Singer and radio personality Jack Reno dies of brain cancer in Florence, Kentucky. He netted a 1968 hit with "Repeat After Me" and went Top 15 with a cover of Vanity Fare's "Hitchin' A Ride"
    Nov 3, 2008
    Merle Haggard has a lemon-sized, cancerous tumor removed from his lung at Bakersfield Memorial Hospital in California
    Nov 7, 2008
    Merle Haggard gives up his daily pot-smoking habit four days after undergoing surgery for lung cancer
    Nov 8, 2008
    Merle Haggard returns home five days after he had surgery to remove a cancerous tumor from his lung
    Nov 22, 2008
    Pop songwriter Alan Gordon dies of cancer in Scottsdale, Arizona, 30 years after T.G. Sheppard had a country hit with his song "Happy Together." Gordon also wrote Three Dog Night's "Celebrate" and Barbra Streisand's "My Heart Belongs To Me"



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