Don chapel biography
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Nashville songwriter Hard Chapel dies at 84
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Don Chapel Amburgey
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1. Donna Amburgey (aka Donna Chapel); Occupation, musician / entertainer.
2. Mike Amburgey (aka Mike Chapel)
3. Robert "Robbie" Amburgey b 1982
4. Alison Leigh Amburgey (female) b 1987
Lloyd Franklin Amburgey
and Tammy Wynette
Lloyd Franklin "Don Chapel" Amburgey; b 2 Aug 1931 Neon, Letcher Co KY d 6 Dec 2015 Nashville, TN; buried Middle Tennessee State Veterans Cemetery, Nashville, TN; s/o Robert Humphrey Amburgey and Gertrude Quillen. Lloyd Franklin "Don Chapel" Amburgey m. to Virginia "Tammy Wynette" Pugh b 5 May 1942 Itawamba Co MS d 6 Apr 1998 Nashville TN; buried Woodlawn Memorial Park Cemetery, Nashville TN; d/o William Hollis Pugh and Mildred Faye Russell. (Lloyd divorced her after a 3 year marriage. No chi
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Songwriters Don Chapel, Don Pfrimmer, and Performer Bonnie Lou Pass Away
Over the last few days, three major contributors to country music have passed away—performer and television/radio personality Bonnie Lou, songwriter and former husband to Tammy Wynette Don Chapel, and prolific hit songwriter Don Pfrimmer. Let’s take a minute to remember all three.
Bonnie Lou
Bonnie Lou was the stage name of Mary Joan Kath born on Oct. 27, 1924 in Towanda, Illinois. Bonnie had two Top 10 country hits on King Records in 1953—“Seven Lonely Days” and “Tennessee Wig Walk”—before transitioning to rockabilly and scoring the 1955 hit “Daddy-O.” But she was best known as a regular and star on The Midwestern Hayride. She began on the program in 1945, hired by WLW’s Bill McCluskey who gave her the stage name Bonnie Lou. In 1948 The Midwestern Hayride began airing on local television in Cincinnati, and later on NBC and ABC as a summer replacement show between 1952 and 1959. Bonnie Lou remained a featured artist on the show until it ended in 1972.
Bonnie Lou learned how to yodel at a very early age from her Swedish grandmother, and also leaned fiddle and guitar. By the age of 13, she was performing on local radio programs in Illionis, inclu