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Woodlawn Memorial Park Cemetery

The old chapel at Woodlawn

Woodlawn Memorial Park Cemetery is located at 660 Thompson Lane in Nashville, Tennessee. It is one of the largest cemeteries in Nashville.

Among those interred or entombed in the cemetery, there are many prominent members of the country music genre and their families.

In June 2018, Woodlawn Memorial Park Cemetery installed the "Lynn Anderson Rose Garden", consisting of 200 Lynn Anderson Hybrid Rose Bushes (named for the singer by the National Rose Society of America), as a place of reflection and meditation in honor of the star's signature song.


List

Note: This is a partial list.

Use the following alphabetical links to find someone.

A

B

Hattie L. Bess (Tootsie)- Born--1914 Died--1978

C

  • Billy Collins (1963–1984), Boxer
  • Jerry Chesnut (1931-2018), country music songwriter

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H

I

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  • Tommy Jackson (1926–1979), Musician, Considered by many in the country music industry to be the first great Nashville session fiddler
  • George Jones (1931–2013), Country Music Hall of Fame Singer

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L

Larrie Londin (1943-1992), drummer

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N

O

  • Claudette Frady-Orbison (1941–1966), wife of legendary singer Roy Orbison. She died when her motorcycle was hit by a truck. She is buried with her two young boys, Roy Dewayne Orbison (1958–1968) and Anthony King Orbison (1962–1968), who died together in a house fire

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The old chapel at Woodlawn

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R

  • Dottie Rambo (1934–2008), Gospel singer and songwriter. Named songwriter of the century in the early 1990s, Grammy and Dove winner, Gospel Music Hall of Fame for self and family group The Rambos, Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, composed over 2,500 songs
  • Marty Robbins (1925–1982), Country Music Hall of Fame singer
  • Jerry Reed (1937–2008), Country music singer and Actor

S

  • Dan Seals (1948–2009), 1980s country singer, of 1970s pop/rock duo England Dan & John Ford Coley
  • Red Sovine (1917–1980), country singer
  • Brock Speer (1920–1999), gospel music singer
  • Mel Street (1933–1978), country singer
  • JD Sumner (1924–1998), singer, Elvis' backup
  • Van Stephenson (1953–2001), Country singer, songwriter. He was a member of Blackhawk
  • Gordon Stoker (1924–2013), singer The Jordanaires
 Billy Sherrill Born--1936 Died-1915--song writer 

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See also

  • List of United States cemeteries

References

  1. ^ "Dr. H. Leo Boles, Churchman, Dies". The Tennessean. February 8, 1946. p. 9. Retrieved October 4, 2018 – via Newspapers.com.

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