[32] During the same year, he participated in a talent show at the Empire Theater. Hank Williams was an aspiring country music singer when he first met Audrey Williams. His mother was Audrey, and his step mothers were Bobbie Jett, who had his stepsister, and Billie Gean who was a widow just months after she married Williams, Sr. (Williams para.14). You wrote only what you felt boil up inside you. The Montgomery Auditorium, located at the intersection of Perry and Monroe Street, "Long forgotten Montgomery auditorium to see new life", "Convict Says Williams Depressed Singer Said Possible Suicide", "Name is Forged to Prescriptions, Expert Says", I Can't Help It (If I'm Still in Love with You), https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Death_of_Hank_Williams&oldid=1137643276, Wikipedia articles needing clarification from December 2016, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, Insufficiency of the right ventricle of the heart, January 4, 1953 at Oakwood Annex Cemetery in, January 1, 1953 in Oak Hill, West Virginia, This page was last edited on 5 February 2023, at 18:47. At cafes across the South, the paper added, his songs blared over radios as news of his death spread. His mother stated that she bought it with money from selling peanuts, but many other prominent residents of the town claimed to have been the one who purchased the guitar for him. [103][104] Alabama governor Gordon Persons officially proclaimed September 21 "Hank Williams Day". [5] He was the third child of Jessie Lillybelle "Lillie" (ne Skipper) (18981955) with Elonzo Huble "Lon" Williams (18911970). [84], A man named Lewis Fitzgerald (born 1943) claimed to be Williams' illegitimate son; he was the son of Marie McNeil, Williams' cousin. In 1930, when Williams was seven years old, Elonzo began experiencing facial paralysis. His performances were acclaimed when he was sober, but despite the efforts of his work associates to get him to shows sober, his abuse of alcohol resulted in occasions when he did not appear or his performances were poor. Instead of performing, Williams died 70 years ago today, on Jan. 1, 1953. [11] Carr later drove on until he stopped for fuel at a gas station in Oak Hill, West Virginia, where he discovered Williams seemingly asleep in the back seat. Hank Williams Jr. - Songs, Age & Wife - Biography It provided the title for the 1964 biographic film of the same name, which starred George Hamilton. He found hemorrhages in the heart and neck and pronounced the cause of death as "insufficiency of the right ventricle of the heart".
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