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    • Mar 18, 1985
    Barbara Mandrell spends an hour with an 11-year-old leukemia patient in a fan encounter facilitated by Dreams Come True
    Jun 17, 1985
    Lee Rosenberg Burrows dies of cancer at her Nashville home. She wrote the Elvis Presley hit "Too Much"
    Apr 13, 1986
    Johnny Dollar dies from cancer in Nashville. A former disc jockey and latter-day member of the Light Crust Doughboys, he earned one minor hit as a recording artist, the 1966 release "Stop The Start (Of Tears In My Heart)"
    Apr 23, 1986
    Pop songwriter Harold Arlen dies of cancer in his apartment on New York's Central Park West. His legacy includes the Judy Garland classic "Over The Rainbow," which had been rejuvenated as a country hit five years earlier by Jerry Lee Lewis
    Jun 27, 1986
    Guitarist Joe Maphis dies of cancer. He played on many of Rick Nelson's recording and performed the theme song to the TV series "Bonanza"
    Jul 17, 1986
    Guitarist Cleo Davis dies following a battle with cancer. He was the first band member Bill Monroe hired for his Blue Grass Boys in August 1938, though he remained with the group a scant two years
    Sep 23, 1986
    Guitarist Jack Shook dies from cancer in Nashville. He played on more than 80 country hits, including titles by Hank Williams, Eddy Arnold, Ernest Tubb, Faron Young and Johnny Horton
    Oct 15, 1986
    Pianist Al Stricklin dies of cancer at a Cleburne, Texas, nursing home. A member of Bob Wills' Texas Playboys from 1935-1941, he played on "San Antonio Rose," "Right Or Wrong," "Cherokee Maiden" and "Take Me Back To Tulsa," among others
    Nov 11, 1986

    A Nashville benefit raises $40,000 for O.B. McClinton, suffering from liver cancer. Performers include Reba McEntire, Kathy Mattea, Waylon Jennings, Ricky Skaggs, Jeff Cook, Jessi Colter, Tom T. Hall, Larry Gatlin, Johnny Rodriguez, Steve Wariner and Rex Allen Jr.

    Nov 14, 1986
    Fiddler Carl Cotner dies of cancer at home in Buena Park, California. Gene Autry's longtime musical arranger, he played on Autry's version of "You Are My Sunshine" and on Jimmy Wakely's "There's A Star-Spangled Banner Waving Somewhere"



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