Hank williams sr death obit news
A New Year’s Day death memorialized 72 years later: Hank ...
Death of Hank Williams
1953 death of an American singer
Entrance marker of the Oakwood Annex Cemetery in Montgomery, Alabama | |
| Date | January 1, 1953; 72 years ago (1953-01-01) |
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| Location | Oak Hill, West Virginia |
| Cause | Insufficiency of the right ventricle of the heart |
| Burial | January 4, 1953, at Oakwood Annex Cemetery in Montgomery, Alabama |
| Inquest | January 1, 1953, in Oak Hill, West Virginia |
| Coroner | Ivan Malinin |
Hiram "Hank" Williams died on January 1, 1953, at the age of 29.
Williams was an American singer-songwriter and musician regarded as one of the most significant country music artists of all time. Williams was born with a mild undiagnosed case of spina bifida occulta, a disorder of the spinal column, which gave him lifelong pain—a factor in his later abuse of alcohol and other drugs. In 1951, Williams fell during a hunting trip in Tennessee, reactivating his old back pains and causing him to be dependent on alcohol and prescripti Hank Williams: Remembering The Death of “The Hillbilly ...
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