Tex Logan Memorial Service

A memorial service is scheduled for Thursday, April 30th at:

• Madison Memorial Home
• 159 Main St,
• Madison, NJ

From 4-7 pm, with a celebration of Tex Logan’s life and legacy, to
follow at The North Star Club, 95 North Street, Madison, NJ.

In lieu of flowers, donations to St. Hubert’s Giralda Animal Welfare Center, 575 Woodland Road, Madison, New Jersey in his memory would be appreciated.

Final Arrangements for Lester Armistead

"Lonesome" Lester Armistead, founding member of The Tennessee Mafia Jug Band, has died.

Armistead passed away at his home, surrounded by family on Friday, May 2nd after a battle with cancer.

Funeral Services for George Shuffler!

Just  four days short of his 89th birthday, George Shuffler died very peacefully at home of natural causes, surrounded by his loving family.

Funeral Services for George S. Shuffler will be held at 4:00 P.M. Thursday April 10, 2014 in the Chapel of Heritage Funeral Service, Valdese, with Rev. Paul Dula and Ron Thomason officiating. Interment will follow in the Burke Memorial Park.

Funeral Arrangements for Doug Davidson

 

Prescription Bluegrass has been in touch with Matt Scarbrough, mandolin player for Laurel River Line, who provided more information about the death of the group’s Dobro player, Doug Davidson.

Doug had joined the band earlier this year and became ill over the summer.  A few weeks ago he spent some time in the hospital for that illness at which time his doctors diagnosed him with pancreatic cancer.

Three Cheers for Banjo Man Lee Marcus

MARCUS’ CALL-TO-ACTION FOR BARRICADE AT JONES FUNERAL PICKED UP BY USA TODAY!

Lee Marcus is the kind of guy who won’t stand still and let a wrong be committed and he knows how to get others behind him too.

At this time there are two conflicting stories about a group of radical church-goers from the Westboro Baptist Church. One story claims that the group plans to picket the funeral of the recently deceased Country Music star George Jones. The other says that they’ll be picketing the NBA Playoff Games in Oklahoma City and Chicago.

Doc Watson Laid To Rest

At a public memorial,  held in Doc Watson’s hometown of Deep Gap North Carolina, with hundreds in attendance, the multi-Grammy winner who always said he was “just one of the people” was laid to rest over the weekend.

The 89-year-old guitarist and folk singer had been struggling to recover from a recent colon surgery.

Blinded as a baby, from an eye infection he never let his disability slow him down.  

Goodbye to Songwriter Bill Castle's Wife Audrey - Passed Away at age 69.

Audrey Louise Teegarden castle, 69, wife of songwriter Bill Castle passed away Friday, Feb. 25, 2011, at Fleming County Hospital.

She was a CNA at Pioneer Trace Nursing Home.

Mrs. Castle was born Jan. 10, 1942, in Mason County, the daughter of the late Walden Teegarden and the late Mary Beckett Van Camp.

Survivors include her husband, Bill Castle Sr.; children, Damond Shane Castle and his wife, Cindy of Flemingsburg, Brian Castle of Mud Lick, Joanthan Casey Castle and his wife, Amy of Nashville, Tenn., Jarad Charles Castle and Tyia Osborne of Maysville, Lucinda Mae Castle of Mud Lick, Kendra Lee Yeager and her husband, Russell of Port Lavaca, Texas, Monda Erskine and her husband, Phillip Gayle of Tollesboro, Bill Castle Jr. and his wife, Jennifer of Mud Lick, Tracey Monroe Castle of Maysville, and James Wendell Castle of Aberdeen, Ohio; eight grandchildren; three great-grandchildren; brothers, John Van Camp and his wife, Colly of Lexington, and Steve Van Camp and his wife, Tonia of Maysville; sisters, Peggy Berry and her husband, Richard of Wheelersburg, Ohio, Libby Pugh and her husband, Floyd of Maysville, Lois Hastings of South Beloit, Ill., and Debbie Bradley and her husband, Kevin of Maysville.

She was preceded in death by two sons, David Shawn Castle and Brady Nichlos Castle; and a sister, Mary Jean Miller.

Services were  held  Wednesday, March 2, 2011, at the Barbour and Son Funeral Home with Bro. Hillary Underwood officiating.

Memorials may be made to Wilson Children's Home, 300 North Wilson Drive, West Union, Ohio 45693.