Obit of Bailey, Jack (b400) - Texas County, Oklahoma

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Amarillo Globe News 23 Sep 1998
Jack Bailey

GOODWELL, Okla. - Jack Bailey, 70, died Monday, Sept. 21, 1998.

Services will be at 2 p.m. today in Goodwell Baptist Church with the Rev. 
Mark Patterson of the New Life Baptist Church of Newalla officiating. 
Burial will be in Goodwell Cemetery by Bunch-Roberts Funeral Home of 
Guymon.

Mr. Bailey was born in Muskogee. He started violin lessons at age 6 and his 
professional career as a musician at 16 working with Jack Beasley on KOMA 
radio. He was an Army veteran of World War II.

In 1947, Mr. Bailey worked on KWKH radio station with "Pop" Echols and the 
Melody Ranch Boys. In the 1950s, he went to Gallup, N.M., with the Benny 
Martin band, which was featured in two movies. He later joined Merle 
Lindsey and the Oklahoma Night Riders, later known as the Ozark Jubilee 
Band, with Red Foley.

Mr. Bailey toured with Pee Wee King in 1956 as well as with Little Jimmie 
Dickens, the Wilburn Brothers, Minnie Pearl and others. He backed Lefty 
Frizzell, Ernest Tubb and Ray Price. For almost 25 years, he teamed with 
Frankie McWhorter and the Over The Hill Gang performing at Bob Wills Day in 
Turkey, Texas. They also were featured at the first two years of the Cowboy 
Symposium in Ruidoso, N.M.

In 1963, Mr. Bailey graduated from Panhandle State University with a degree 
in music. He taught music in public schools for 11 years, gave private 
music lessons and established the Malachi Recording Studio in Goodwell. In 
1997, he was inducted into the Western Swing Society Hall of Fame.

Mr. Bailey was a member of the Goodwell Baptist Church where he served as a 
deacon and Sunday School teacher. He also was a member of the Panhandle 
Lions Club and the Musicians Union.

He married Sue Murphy in 1957 at Goodwell.

Survivors include his wife; a daughter, Rebecca Bailey of Midland, Texas; 
and a son, Robert Eugene Bailey of Pampa, Texas.

The family suggests memorials be to the Goodwell Baptist Church, P.O. Box 
69, Goodwell, OK 73939. Memorials will be accepted at Bunch-Roberts Funeral 
Home, P.O. Box 1112, Guymon, OK 73942.
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