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Bonnie Owens Joins Buck Owens - By N.L. Belardes

Another local Bakersfield country music legend has died. Bonnie Owens died at a local Bakersfield area hospice after a battle with Alzheimers. There's a tangled web of love and country music in her story as she was married to Both Buck Owens and Merle Haggard--though not at the same time. Robert Price points out that she died exactly 30 days after Buck Owens recent passing. Was it the strangeness of fate? If people die in threes, who might be next?

I don't know but you can hear Buck Owens son Buddy Alan at the Crystal Palace as he's taken over for his father and promises to perform at the theatre restaurant now and then...

According to one of the Buckaroos, Buddy Alan began performing last week.

  1. Blogger Matildakay | 11:35 AM |  

    My heart goes out to the Owens family... that's a lot of loss to deal with in such a short time.

  2. Blogger chingpea | 5:03 PM |  

    how strange and romantic at the same time....

  3. Blogger dusty | 10:54 AM |  

    At buck's funeral the story told about Buck and Bonnie still being close brought a tear to my eye..and now this..

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