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    • Jun 4, 2005
    San Benito, Texas, dedicates its new water tower, which hails the community as the "Hometown Of Freddy Fender"
    Nov 11, 2005
    "The Three Burials Of Melquiades Estrada" opens in New York. Tommy Lee Jones stars with Dwight Yoakam and Levon Helm. The soundtrack includes Merle Haggard, Freddy Fender, Roger Miller, Flaco Jimenez, Hank Williams Jr. and Augie Meyers
    Dec 31, 2005
    Freddy Fender performs what proves to be his final concert
    Jan 31, 2006
    Recall releases the soundtrack to "The Three Burials Of Melquiades Estrada." It features a new Merle Haggard version of "Workin' Man Blues," plus Dwight Yoakam, Hank Williams Jr., Augie Meyers, Freddy Fender, Flaco Jimenez and Roger Miller
    Feb 3, 2006
    "The Three Burials Of Melquiades Estrada" opens nationally. The Tommy Lee Jones picture features Dwight Yoakam and Levon Helm, plus music by Merle Haggard, Augie Meyers, Freddy Fender, Hank Williams Jr., Flaco Jimenez and Roger Miller
    Jul 17, 2006
    A post on Freddy Fender's website indicates the Tex-Mex singer is undergoing chemotherapy to treat lung cancer
    Aug 2, 2006
    The Corpus Christi Caller-Times reports Freddy Fender's lung cancer is inoperable. The singer has 11 tumors, but remains appreciative. Though Fender would "like to live longer," he says, "I cannot complain that I haven't lived long enough"
    Oct 4, 2006
    Freddy Fender, in the midst of chemotherapy treatments, is transferred from a Tulsa health facility to San Antonio's University Hospital to address a blood infection
    Oct 11, 2006
    Freddy Fender returns to his home in Corpus Christi, Texas, after being treated for a blood infection in San Antonio
    Oct 14, 2006
    Freddy Fender dies of cancer at his home in Corpus Christi, Texas. The Tex-Mex singer, who delivered many of his records in Spanglish, had two million-sellers in 1975: "Wasted Days And Wasted Nights" and "Before The Next Teardrop Falls"
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