On this day (December 16) in 1978, Jenny Lou Carson died at the age of 63. Born Lucille Overstake, she rose to fame as a radio performer with her sisters, Evelyn and Eva, in the Three Little Maids.
Click to open image viewer. Although Tex Ritter (Woodward Maurice Ritter, 1905-1975) attained most of his fame as a Hollywood singing cowboy in the 1930s and 1940s, he still performed into the 1970s.