She is survived by her father, her partner Mentor Williams and her children, Lisa Sutton, Melissa Hempel and Gray Stream. The year before, Anderson was arrested on drunken-driving charge in Texas, the same week she was nominated for a Grammy for a bluegrass album. I knew Ken before the Lawrence Welk Show and was glad to hear of his success with Welk. Tom and I (Jeff) met while singing at the famous HORN in Santa Monica, California. She later pleaded no contest to obstructing an officer and was given a conditional discharge, court records show. Shirley and Jeff Lawrence have known Ken and Marilyn since the early 60’s, along with Ken’s brother, Tom. In 2005, Anderson was accused of shoplifting a “Harry Potter” DVD from a Taos supermarket and then punching a police officer as she was being put into a patrol car. A Taos judge issued a restraining order in 1995 against Anderson after her boyfriend said she had threatened him following the end of their 12-year relationship. As of today no official announcement or obituary has been posted. He died in Santa Monica, California, of pneumonia at the age of 89. The cause of death was flu that turned into pneumonia. She charted five number one and 18 top-ten singles on the Billboard country songs chart. Her crossover signature recording, ' Rose Garden ,' was a number one hit in the United States and internationally. In her later years she lived in Taos, New Mexico, where she faced a number of legal problems. He founded the Lawrence Welk Resort and Country Club in Escondido, California, and a second resort in Branson, Missouri, which is operated by his son, Lawrence Jr. Lynn Rene Anderson (Septem July 30, 2015) was an American country singer and television personality. The daughter of country songwriters Casey and Liz Anderson, she started performing at the age of 6.Īnderson was an award-winning equestrian as a teenager, voted California Horse Show Queen in 1966. 26, 1947, in Grand Forks, North Dakota, but raised in Sacramento, California. We will miss her and remember her fondly,” Parton said in a statement. “Lynn is blooming on God’s Rose Garden now. “Always continuing to pave the road for those to follow.”

“She did so much for the females in country music,” McEntire said in a statement.

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