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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.
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...
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.
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...
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.
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....
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.