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GOSPEL ARTIST DOTTIE RAMBO PASSES ON SUNDAY: Influential singer/songwriter died early yesterday when her tour bus ran off the highway.

(May 12, 2008)

Joyce “Dottie” Rambo, an influential Gospel singer and song writer, died early Sunday when her tour bus ran off the highway and struck an embankment. Rambo was 74 years-old.

Seven other people on the bus were injured in the wreck east of Mount Vernon, Missouri on Interstate 44, according to the Missouri Highway Patrol. It was unclear whether the crash was related to the severe storms and tornadoes that hit the region Saturday.

Rambo, of Nashville, Tennessee, was on her way to a Mother’s Day performance in Texas, according to her web site.

“She was a giant in the Gospel music industry,” said Beckie Simmons, Rambo’s agent. “Dolly Parton recorded some of her songs.”

Dottie Rambo was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame last year and the Kentucky Music Hall of Fame in 2006. Rambo has had more than 2,500 published songs, including Gospel classics such as, “He Looked Beyond My Fault and Saw My Need” and the won the 1982 Gospel Music Association Song of the Year Award for “We Shall Behold Him.”

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