June 22 — Grand Ole Opry member Jimmy C. Newman, known for mixing Cajun and country music, died at 86.
Dec. 20 — Longtime Nashville radio personality Teddy Bart, who was recently inducted into the Tennessee Radio Hall of Fame, died at the age of 78.
July 11 — John Seigenthaler, the journalist who edited The Tennessean newspaper, helped shape USA Today and worked for civil rights during the John F. Kennedy administration, died at his Nashville home at age 86. In his wide-ranging career, Seigenthaler also served on Robert Kennedy's presidential campaign and founded the First Amendment Center at Vanderbilt University in Nashville.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Jan. 11 — Dave Walker, who coached East Tennessee State's track program for about half a century and was inducted into the Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame, died at 82.
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Sept. 17 — Grand Ole Opry Member George Hamilton IV,Jerseys From China, who brought country music to Russia and Czechoslovakia and recorded the first country album in Eastern Europe, died at 77. Hamilton also hosted country-themed television shows in Britain and Canada.
Dec. 4 — Bob Montgomery, a songwriter and producer who wrote hits for pop and country artists from Buddy Holly to Eddy Arnold died at 77.
Nov. 29 — Steve Hershel Lake, a former publisher of the Cookeville Herald-Citizen, Carthage Courier and Pulaski Citizen and president of the Tennessee Press Association died at 75.
Oct. 30 — Former Iowa State football coach and Florida State and Vanderbilt athletic director Clay Stapleton died at 93. At Vanderbilt, he hired Steve Sloan, who took the Commodores to their first bowl game in nearly 20 years in 1974.
Sept. 21 — Former Tennessee Titans kicker Rob Bironas died at the age of 36 after a car accident near his Nashville home. Bironas was the fourth most-accurate kicker in NFL history. In nine seasons with the Titans, he finished as the team's second all-time leading scorer with 1,032 points, and he set a franchise record scoring triple digits in seven straight seasons. He also set an NFL record in 2011 in hitting a field goal from at least 40 yards in 10 consecutive games.
Nov. 10 — Former state Rep. Emmitt Ford,MLB Jerseys From China, who served in the legislature from 1974 until 1981, when he resigned after he was convicted and sentenced to prison on insurance fraud charges, died in Memphis at age 70.
Oct. 20 — Luther Masingill, a veteran broadcaster who worked for the same Chattanooga station for more than 70 years, died at 92. Masingill was a member of the National Radio Hall of Fame, which describes him as "the only announcer in America to have broadcast news of the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor and the 2001 destruction of the World Trade Center." He was known for using his radio broadcast to help people find lost pets.
May 18 — Don Meyer, one of the winningest coaches in college basketball who led his teams to the playoffs 19 times during a career spent mostly at Lipscomb University in Nashville and Northern State in South Dakota, died at 69.
Oct. 18 — Nashville songwriter and Hall of Famer Paul Craft died at the age of 76. Craft penned the words to songs made famous by Ray Stevens, Mark Chestnutt, Alison Krauss, the Eagles and Linda Rondstadt.
Dec. 21 — Paul Walther, who played six seasons in the NBA in the 1950s after a stellar college career at Tennessee, died at 87.
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April 9 — Bobby Denton, who worked as Neyland Stadium's public address announcer for nearly half a century, died at 73.
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