Buddy Holly Rites Slated Here Today
Funeral services are scheduled at 2 p.m. today in the Tabernacle Baptist Church for Buddy Holly, 22-year-old rock ‘n roll singer who was killed in the crash of a chartered plane near Mason City, Iowa Tuesday.
The Rev. Ben D. Johnson, Pastor, will officiate. Burial will be in the City of Lubbock Cemetery under the direction of Sanders Funeral Home.
Also killed in the crash were two other well-known rock ‘n roll singers, Ritchie Valens, 17, Los Angeles, and J. B. (Big Bopper) Richardson, 28, Beaumont.
Funeral services for Richardson were held at a Beaumont funeral home at 2 p.m. Friday, a time when his teen-age fans were in school. The service was planned at that time to avoid any demonstration by the teen-agers. Richardson was program director of station KTRM, Beaumont.
From Lubbock Avalanche-Journal, Morning Edition
Saturday, February 7, 1959
Section 1, Page 3
