The band has had a heartbreaking year.
It has been an absolutely heartbreaking year for The Oak Ridge Boys with the latest blow coming with the death of longtime member Joe Bonsall last week.“Thank you for your prayers, posts and support for each of us and our families during this season of loss ,”“He pointed towards a distant shore and whispered to my soul,” it read. “Your journey now is o’er, my child rejoice, and welcome home…”
Also this year, Norah Lee Allen, the wife of frontman Duane Allen, died back on Easter. Allen addressed her death in a Facebook post a short time later. Just hours after Allen announced his wife’s death on Easter, it was revealed that singer Richard Sterban’s wife, Donna, lost her father, too.
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