Even though I have been a full time Country Music Musician/entertainer for 50 years now, I am always learning new things from your letters.It is not surprising that after Faron you are doing Marty Robbins as they both were exceptionally versatile artists. Sherwin Linton ( writes, “I have written to you before, but I can’t help but tell you every time I get your newsletter I eagerly read it and it is always interesting.

Thanks to Tom Lipscombe for forwarding this link and to John Prime for writing the article about Faron’s induction into Shreveport’s Walk of Stars: We’d all meet on a certain corner and have bratwurst sandwiches and get to partying.” “They always had a big washtub full of ice-cold beer backstage,” Ray recalls.Â “Then after the show, we’d go downtown. I wouldn’t have missed it for the world.” Ray Emmett says, “That was probably the best tour we ever went on.”Â He appreciated the effort to provide the Americans with cold beer. Steel player Al Lewis says, “They treated us wonderfully, and we were received so well. They played for the German people instead of working military bases. Other performers included Tommy Overstreet, Charly McClain, the Osborne Brothers, and the Kendalls. Damion and Kenny were the same age, born a month apart in 1955, and now both are gone–Kenny at 48 and Damion at 51.įARON YOUNG, TWENTY-SEVEN YEARS AGO: In November 1979, Faron and the Deputies went to Germany on a Marlboro package tour. I first met Damion when he joined my brother Kenny and me at Shoney’s one evening in 2000 during our visit to Nashville. He’d been seriously ill, and his death was expected, but that doesn’t make it easier. Survivors include four daughters, Gladys Turner, Cleburne, Nita Moody, Chico, Betty Grau, Melba, ID and Shirley Stipes, Bridgeport 14 grandchildren 21 great grandchildren one brother, Charles Eugene Reed, Everman, TX and numerous nieces and nephews.Īrrangements have been entrusted to The White Family Funeral Home of Bowie.I’m saddened to report that Damion Young–eldest son of Faron and Hilda–died November 25, 2006, at four in the morning. She is preceded in death by her parents, Charlie and Mabel Reed husband, Jay McClain son, Billy McClain two brothers, Alfred Reed James Reed great grandson, Jay Lee Reed Jr.

She later worked for Country Square Truckstop and Quickway Grocery as a cook. She owned and operated Hutson’s Cafe in Bowie and G & L Truckstop in Alvord. 22, 1926 in Henrietta, to Charlie and Mabel (Smith) Reed.

The family received friends from 6 to 8 p.m.

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