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  1. Dec 9, 2021 · On December 9th, 1996, with his career forgotten and his health failing, Faron Young decided to end his own life. He penned a suicide note specifically enumerating the decline in his career, and how he felt abandoned and forgotten by country music as one of the causes.

  2. Dec 9, 2017 · Young had written a suicide note explaining that he had been depressed about his health struggles. Young died on Dec. 10, 1996, at Columbia Summit Medical Center in Nashville, surrounded by all...

  3. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Faron_YoungFaron Young - Wikipedia

    In failing health, he died by suicide at 64 in 1996. [1] . Young is a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame . Early years. Young was born in Shreveport, Louisiana, the youngest of six children of Harlan and Doris Young. He grew up on a dairy farm that his family operated outside the city.

  4. Dec 11, 1996 · Faron Young, a honky-tonk singer who became a pillar of Nashville country music, died yesterday at Columbia Summit Medical Center in Nashville, said Melanie Lamb, a hospital spokeswoman. He was...

  5. Dec 10, 1996 · Country singer Faron Young was shot in the head Monday and is in critical condition, and police said the wound was likely self-inflicted. A suicide note was found in the singer’s house.

  6. Dec 12, 1996 · Over the years he weathered alcoholism, marital problems and several brushes with the law - he was famously convicted of assaulting a minor in 1972 - yet few could have anticipated his suicide....

  7. Sep 21, 2005 · Country singer Faron Young, whose string of hits included the classic Willie Nelson song Hello Walls, died Tuesday of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. He was 64.

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