Carrie,
Thank you so much for sharing your page with us that you made for your grandpa.
You
are very talented, and he would be very proud of you!!

--- In westernswinglovers@yahoogroups.com, C haggart <sportcarebear@...> wrote:
>
> Hi
> I am sorry I haven't come in much.
> School kept me busy. I am in grade 8 now.
> Death is so sad. I feel bad for this family.
>
> I made a page for my grandpa. http://www.angelfire.com/planet/grandpabain/
>
> westswing <no_reply@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
> Sad news from our friend Barb Martin of the Western Swing Monthly Magazine
about
the
> passing of a Western Swing icon:
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>
> Harry Coffman called me last night to tell me longtime Western Swing
> bandleader Hurshul Clothier passed away yesterday. He was 83. Hurshul
> fought a valiant battle against cancer these last couple years, Mabel
> always
> at his side as she was for 55 years. I talked with his wife Mabel who
> is
> doing as well as can be expected. Services are planned for him April
> 5,
> Wednesday, at 1PM in Enid OK. at the chapel of the Ladusaw-Evans
> Funeral
> Home. Their number is 580-233-1408 if you need further information.
>
> Hurshul was an excellent fiddler and singer, always in the Bob Wills
> style.
> He organized his first band at age 16 and played until 1942 when he
> enlisted
> in the Air Force. He was assigned to the USO, playing at bases all
> around
> the Pacific; he served as a medic at Hickham Field in Honolulu. He was
> discharged New Year's Eve 1945 and immediately came home and got his
> band
> back together. They played 5 nights a week and had a radio show in
> Enid.
> His band played for years in Wynoka Saturday nights. And the place was
> jumpin'!! He worked the Los Angeles circuit for a year.
>
> Hurshul Clothier and the Oklahoma Travelers made quite a name for
> themselves
> and had a huge local following, a thousand folks a night attended their
> dances. Over the years they worked with stars such as Lefty Frizzell,
> Glen
> Campbell, Roy and Dale, Bob Wills, many others. In 1972 he organized
> another band which included many of the Texas Playboys: Frankie
> McWhorter,
> Curly Lewis, Gene Crownover, Eldon Shamblin, Benny Garcia, Blub Rees,
> Jimmy
> Benjamin, Clarence Cagle; other great musicians like Dave's Dad Ashley
> Alexander, Pat Jacobs, Gary Bloxsom, Rudy Martin, Tommy Riddle, Tiny
> Duncan.
> I hope you had an opportunity to attend some of those shows at his
> Belle
> Starr Theater - what a band!!!
>
> He worked at Beechcraft Airplane Company and sold stock and insurance
> as a
> sideline to his music business. In later years he owned seven
> satellite
> offices selling mobile homes and properties.
>
> With sadness we say goodbye to our dear friend, a very kind and warm
> man.
>
> Barbara Martin, Publisher
> Western Swing Monthly
>
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