Dottie Rambo Killed in Bus Accident - Page 4

TRFrance · #31 05-11-2008, 03:30 PM

Gospel singer Dottie Rambo dies in tour bus wreck in Mo.

MOUNT VERNON, Mo. (AP) — Joyce "Dottie" Rambo, an influential gospel singer and songwriter, died early Sunday when her tour bus ran off the highway and struck an embankment. She was 74.

Seven other people on the bus were injured in the wreck about two miles east of Mount Vernon on Interstate 44, the Missouri Highway Patrol said. They were hospitalized in Springfield with moderate to severe injuries, according to the patrol.

It was unclear whether the crash was related to the severe storms and tornadoes that hit the region on Saturday. Storms also swept through the area later in the night, according to the National Weather Service.
Rambo, of Nashville, Tenn., was on her way to a Mother's Day performance in Texas, according to her Web site.

"She was a giant in the gospel music industry," said Beckie Simmons, Rambo's agent. "Dolly Parton recorded some of her songs."

Rambo was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame last year and the Kentucky Music Hall of Fame in 2006.

Rambo has had more than 2,500 published songs, including gospel classics such as "He Looked Beyond My Fault and Saw My Need" and the 1982 Gospel Music Association Song of the Year, "We Shall Behold Him."

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CC1 · #32 05-11-2008, 03:48 PM

I just saw this sad news on the internet and knew there would be a thread at AFF about it.

As someone mentioned it is just such a shocking way for someone 74 years old who has endured such incredible pain with her back problems to die.

Dottie blessed the family of God with a lot of powerful songs over the years. Anybody 40 or older knows that from the 60's through the 70's Dottie was one of the most prolific writers in Gospel Music.

I would love to go to her funeral if it is here in Nashville but I am going to be out of town most of next week unfortunetely.

I will be praying for Reba, her ex husband Buck, and the rest of the family.

Kay B · #33 05-11-2008, 04:31 PM

Very sad news.

Ron · #34 05-11-2008, 04:50 PM

Sad to hear the news.

StillStanding · #35 05-11-2008, 04:56 PM

They made the announcement about her death at Christ Church this morning. Dottie has relatives that attend Christ Church.

Esther · #36 05-11-2008, 04:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Pianoman

They made the announcement about her death at Christ Church this morning. Dottie has relatives that attend Christ Church.

Was that how they found out?

Sweet Pea · #37 05-11-2008, 05:18 PM

I have so many of the Rambo records. Some great songs - have sung many of them through the years.. Every once in a while still have to get the old LPs out and listen.

A sad and tragic situation.... she will be missed.

CC1 · #38 05-11-2008, 05:34 PM

I can only pray that Dottie didn't suffer. I hope she was asleep and never woke up.

We need to also remember to pray for all of the other people on the bus who all survived but are hospitalized with morderate to severe injuries. There was a total of seven people or seven people in addition to Dottie on the bus.

I also can't help but think what a horrible Mother's day for Reba to wake up to.

Sister Alvear · #39 05-11-2008, 05:50 PM

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Originally Posted by CC1

I can only pray that Dottie didn't suffer. I hope she was asleep and never woke up.

We need to also remember to pray for all of the other people on the bus who all survived but are hospitalized with morderate to severe injuries. There was a total of seven people or seven people in addition to Dottie on the bus.

I also can't help but think what a horrible Mother's day for Reba to wake up to.

I thought about that too...so sad...we are praying for all the family.

timlan2057 · #40 05-11-2008, 06:03 PM

How very sad.

Now, I was never a super big Rambo fan even when I was a youngster.

But "The Singing Rambos" were such a part of our lives at JCM back in the days when southern gospel was king.

I've come to appreciate her music more now that I'm older.

Many of her songs were more "country gospel", but her soul and heart shone through what she wrote and sang, her Kentucky roots like Loretta Lynn's, or the east Texas piney woods that gave birth to such a great artist as George Jones or the north Alabama roots of Howard and Vestal Goodman.

Dottie, like the others, sang from the heart and captured in their music the true spirit of America, the Kentucky coal miner, the truck driver - the heart, soul, joy and pain of every day living and the hope of something better in the world to come.

The song of hers I'm thinking of right now is one that I'd normally think "corny" but it doesn't seem so corny right now - "Mama's Teaching Angels How To Sing" ...