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Wednesday,
February 23, 2000:
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From
Lubbock Avalanche-Journal, Morning Edition
Saturday, February 7, 1959
Section 1, Page 3
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.
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