Here are the personalities country music said goodbye to in 2025. May they rest in peace:
January 13 – Buck White (age 94) (singer, mandolinist, pianist, founder of the Whites)
January 15 – Melba Montgomery (age 86) (singer, songwriter)
January 24 – Buddy Brock (age 72)
(songwriter)
March 6 – Troy Seals (age 86) (songwriter)
March 20 – Eddie Adcock (age 86) (bluegrass banjoist)
March 29 – Dick Damron (age 91)
(Canadian singer, songwriter)
April 1 – Johnny Tillotson (age 86)
(singer, songwriter)
April 22 – David Briggs (age 82)
(keyboardist)
April 23 – Lulu Roman (age 78)
(singer, comedian)
May 9 – Johnny Rodriguez (age 73)
(singer)
June 19 – Gailard Sartain (age 81)
(actor, comedian, long-time Hee Haw cast member)
July 18 – Helen Cornelius (age 83)
(singer, Jim Ed Brown duet partner)
July 26 – Sandy Pinkard (age 78) (songwriter, half of Pinkard & Bowden duo)
July 31 – Flaco Jimenez (age 86)
(accordionist, formerly of the Texas Tornadoes)
August 1 – Jeannie Seely (age 85)
(singer, songwriter, long-time Grand Ole Opry member)
September 4 – Robby Turner (age 62)
(steel guitarist)
September 18 – Brett James (age 57)
(songwriter)
September 19 – Sonny Curtis (age 88)
(singer, songwriter, member of the Crickets)
November 2 – John Wesley Ryles (age 74) (singer, session vocalist)
November 14 – Todd Snider (age 59) (singer, songwriter)
December 8 – Raul Malo (age 60) (singer, songwriter, lead singer of the Mavericks)
December 15 – Joe Ely (age 78) (singer, songwriter, member of the Flatlanders)
December 25 – Stu Phillips (age 92) (Canadian singer, long-time Grand Ole Opry member)
Special thanks to “Good ‘N Country” host Ken Hippler for compiling this list
