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Old 05-17-2008, 08:13 AM
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Re: Dottie Rambo Killed in Bus Accident

Question for CC1 or Pianoman have you heard who is speaking at the funeral?
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Question for CC1 or Pianoman have you heard who is speaking at the funeral?
I haven't heard anything yet! I'll post if I hear something.
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Old 05-17-2008, 09:35 AM
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I just received a call from my friend, Larry Dalton. He will be playing the piano starting an hour before the funeral as a prelude. He did a lot of work with Reba and Donnie McGuire.

He told me that Geron Davis and Bill Gaither are putting together a homecoming choir to sing at the funeral service. The choir will consist of well-known gospel singers and musicians along with certain members of the Christ Church Choir.

I hate it that I will be missing all of this. I'm hoping that Christ Church will video podcast it!


I read this morning that the service won't be podcast (streamed). There will be a video of the services released at a later date.
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Old 05-17-2008, 09:58 AM
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UPDATE: 5/16/08 - 11:22 PM
STATEMENT FROM PASTORS DONY & REBA RAMBO MCGUIRE


Because of the intimate nature of this service, we will not be streaming this event live. We know many of you are desiring to share this moment. A keepsake memorial video will be available at a later date once the family has gotten past the shock of this sudden loss. Everyone subscribed to our web site will receive an e-mail at that time.

We appreciate your patience and understanding in this matter.

Please continue to keep the Ferguson/Barnes/Meadows families in your prayers. We have no further updates on their recovery right now.

P.S. For those of you who have asked, Mother's precious Yorkie Tasha was found and is in safe keeping!
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Re: Dottie Rambo Killed in Bus Accident

Maybe they could have a private service and a public service. They could stream the public service.
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Old 05-17-2008, 12:06 PM
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Dottie Rambo has died. On Mother's Day, God took one of the greatest mother's ever, home
to be with him. Dottie was one of the most prolific songwriters of our day, and the divinely inspired
words and lyrics of her songs touched the hearts and lives of millions of people. The following is a short
bio........

Dottie Rambo Bio
by Barry Drudge
Her songs touch millions. Her voice is heard around the world, her heart an open book. Celebrating sixty years of changing lives in song and word-this is Dottie Rambo. Kentucky is an essential ingredient in Dottie's makeup. Its hills and streams were her playground. The rhythm of its people's speech the early pattern for her music's cadence. No matter where she has traveled, the pull of the bluegrass state has never been far away. Dottie Rambo was born Joyce Reba Lutrell in Madison, Kentucky during the Great Depression. Her family next set up residence in Morganfield near relatives. The financial crunch that gripped the nation didn't miss a single part of the country-including Dottie's home place. But the stamina of friends and family during tough times instilled a resilience in little Dottie that would all too soon be needed in her travels far from home. Songwriting found her at a young age. The eight-year-old Dottie was out playing in the creek when words and music for her first song came bubbling forth. It startled her so much that she ran all the way home to tell her mother. As she excitedly sang it, her mother's face went through myriad emotions. "Did you hear this song somewhere?" her mother asked. "No ma'am," Dottie said. "Are you sure that you didn't hear it on the radio?" "Oh no mamma," Dottie said, "It came from me." Her mother held her close and cried. She told Dottie this great gift would be a blessing and a burden. She told her to treasure and guard it.

By ten little Dottie was playing guitar and singing on local country radio. Her voice sounded beyond its years as she covered now-classics like Ernest Tubb's "Walkin' The Floor Over You." Her skill and flair made her family proud. Her father enjoyed her gift and hoped to see her go beyond their meager living to become a singer on Nashville's WSM Grand Ole Opry. But a career as a country singer/songwriter was not to be. Dottie gave her life to Christ at the age of twelve. Her conversion was fiercely protested by her father, a man whose own strong will had no time for religion. He wanted to see his daughter make it big and live better, not suffer singing in backwood churches for little or no pay. He made an ultimatum: either stop the Christian singing or leave his house. Dottie chose to stick with the feelings that had ignited in her heart. She would take the road that made most sense to her-singing about Jesus. As hard as it is to imagine in our modern child safety-conscious world, Dottie was escorted the few miles to the bus stop by her mother. All her earthly belongings were in a cardboard suitcase. Her name and address were on a tag around her neck-just in case she got lost. The twelve-year-old had been invited to sing in Indianapolis, Indiana and would be going it alone. "I am going to worry God to death over you," her mother sobbed.

Dottie hugged her and assured her that she would be all right, and all right she was. People were amazed to hear such a big voice come from such a little girl with an even bigger guitar. Offerings were taken up everywhere she went, and she sent a portion home, a portion saved for tithes and the rest to buy clothes and guitars. Dottie realized early on that people didn't come to see some little urchin. They came to see somebody who had it all together, and Dottie was all that and more. By the 1950s she married and had her daughter, Reba. But the call to sing the songs of her heart never diminished. She and her husband, Buck Rambo, would travel across the region and sing her songs at churches for little money. Many times they held down day jobs while driving many miles throughout the night to arrive just in time to sing and go back home. Other singing groups heard her songs and started singing them too. Through one of these groups, the Happy Goodman Family, her songs caught the attention of the then- governor of Louisiana, Jimmy Davis. Governor Davis flew her and her family to the governor's mansion so that she could sing her songs for him. It was her first plane ride. She felt this meeting required greater deportment than she had ever considered. But Dottie was a quick learner. Her gifts of observation and adaptation (plus a healthy dash of competitive spirit) have continued to serve her well in the face of an ever-changing and progressing music scene. Governor Davis paid Dottie around three-thousand dollars to publish her songs. It was more money than she had ever seen. Once Jimmy Davis Music started promoting Dottie Rambo songs in the early 1960s, things would never be the same. During this time Warner Brothers Records signed Dottie and her group, The Gospel Echoes, to a two-record deal. In the middle of it, Warners' executives didn't know what to do with Christian music and suggested that the group move to folk (which the label did with Peter, Paul and Mary) and that Dottie consider doing Rhythm and Blues. She declined both offers. Her heart was in Gospel music and couldn't be budged.

Within the span of a few more years Dottie went from $50 a week singing in churches to singing at the largest concert dates across the country. She and the trio were the first non-quartet singers to sing at the Gospel Quartet Convention. Dottie was one of the first Gospel singers, along with her family the Singing Rambos, to sing in Viet Nam for the American troops in 1967. But Dottie didn't stop at the stage. Dottie's heart led her to the medical tents where men were hurt and dying. Dottie sang, prayed and ministered to those who were hurt beyond repair. Nobody asked her to, but Dottie Rambo went above and beyond the call of duty at every turn. Her 1968 album, "The Soul Of Me" won the Grammy for best Gospel Album, beating out the likes of Mavis Staples and James Cleveland. Billboard magazine called her "Trendsetter of the year" because of singing with an all-black choir. Her recordings held fast to the cutting edge, using top Nashville musicians, always making her records on par with anybody else on the charts. Dottie continued to observe and adapt. And the songs never stopped. After writing her heartfelt blockbuster, "He Looked Beyond My Faults (And Saw My Need)," the doors opened for her songs to be recorded by such luminary artists as: Elvis Presley, Barbara Mandrell, Bill Monroe, Johnny Cash, Whitney Houston, Vince Gill, Dottie West, Pat Boone, Sandy Patty, the Oak Ridge Boys and countless others. Her ability to use the right words and haunting melodies make her songs timeless-all 2500 plus that have been counted through ASCAP! Dottie's children's project, "Down By The Creek Bank," is one of the most successful Christian Children's records in history, earning platinum record status.
Whitney Houston recorded, "I Go To The Rock" for the Movie, "The Preacher's Wife" and won a Dove (along with Dottie) for performing a song that Dottie's own record company wouldn't let her release because they originally felt it was too "rock and roll." But her life has not been all highs. Like her lyric, "You will have to live the song before you know," she has known heartache, loss, betrayal, abandonment ending with severe back trauma that would end most careers. Since 1989 Dottie has endured severe back pain from a ruptured disc that caused her vertebrae to calcify to her spinal cord. But Dottie could not be kept down! A dozen surgeries have not quieted her gift. Throughout the 1990s Dottie continued to sing across the country and on television. Each step made her stronger. Each moment she sang and spoke to others built her confidence and strength. And the accolades kept coming in. In 1994 the Christian Country Music Association awarded her with the Songwriter of the Century Award. Even the industry outside Gospel music has taken note of all that Dottie Rambo has accomplished. In 2000, ASCAP honored Dottie with the prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award. The 21st century brought had her back in the recording studio making her 71st album, "Stand By The River." Not only was the project strong in song and performance, but had the added bonus of country legend Dolly Parton joining in on the title track. Again it was a chart topper-giving Dottie hit records through five decades. And it had the added prestige of the duet with Dolly being nominated for CCMA song of the year, duet of the year, Dove nominated for Country Recorded Song Of The Year, Gospel Fan Awards for Duo Of The Year and Song Of The Year. All that bubbling out of a little girl from Kentucky.

The songs of Dottie Rambo have proven staying power. Through good times and bad, triumph and trial, they are there to console, uplift and sometimes just make you laugh. Her songs-emanating from record, cassette and CD players-are the modern-day campfire we all gather around and feel warm. There is a belief: even if she hadn't written one song, she still would have changed the world-this is Dottie Rambo.
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Old 05-17-2008, 07:34 PM
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Question for CC1 or Pianoman have you heard who is speaking at the funeral?
I haven't heard. I am still going to try and go to the funeral if everything stays calm at work and I have no unexpected issues to deal with.

The only thing I have heard is what was posted here about Bill Gaither and Geron Davis putting together some kind of celebrity choir to sing at it.
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Dellperson,

Unless something weird happens at work (and that has been happening a lot lately) I plan on being at the funeral.

Just look for the big fat guy with thick glasses!

Do you live in Nashville? If so what church do you attend?



Hey CC, I don't live in Nashville but I am there quite often. Lexington,KY is where I call home. I'm in FT.Wayne Indiana at the moment, so about 9pm or so I'll be headed back towards Nashville.
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I am sure it will be a moving service. All my life I have loved her songs. We will be having special prayer for her family and friends in our evening service.
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I only heard Bro. Russell preach once. That was about 30 years ago and I don't remember what he said. I'm not sure where I got the idea he was a one-stepper --if it was from things said about him and by folks in his church choir who visited our ALJC church for about three services or just where. He was very strong on baptism in Jesus' name but some of the wording in his autobiography when he talked about baptizing folks may have led me to believe that he didn't believe that baptism is essential to salvation. Eld. Steve Epley knew him well and respected him. I asked Steve if Bro. Russell was a one-stepper and he said he was.

Eld. Epley, unless I misunderstood what you told me, I think you said Bro. Russell was a one-stepper.
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His take was somewaht different he believed the water & Spirit teaching but he believed those who had genuinely repented would be saved at the White Throne.
His father pastored what we called a "dry-lander church" they did not believe in water baptism period only Spirit baptism he was raised in that church. His mother died having not been baptized so in my youth I asked about the salvation of his mother. He said you must be born again to enter the kingdom thus he said she would be resurrected after the kingdom(1,000) and be judged.
He fervently preached Acts 2:38 and baptized probably in the thousands.
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