Gospel music singer and songwriter Joyce “Dottie” Rambo was killed Sunday morning, May 11, when her tour bus crashed on Interstate 44 near Mount Vernon, Missouri.
Rambo was on her way to a Mother’s Day performance in Texas at the time of the crash.
According to www.dottierambo.net, the force of high winds pushed the bus off the road, down an embankment and into a median. The singer-songwriter was accompanied on the bus by her manager, Larry Ferguson and his wife Judy, their two sons Pierce and Christian, the bus driver Ronnie Meadows and Chris Barnes, Larry’s assistant. The survivors sustained multiple injuries. Rambo was the only fatality in the crash. She was 74.
Rambo’s compositions have been recorded by gospel artists such as Vickie Winans (“We Shall Behold Him” – 1982 GMA Song of the Year) and Danniebelle Hall (“I Go to the Rock” – also performed by Whitney Houston and the Georgia Mass Choir in the film The Preacher’s Wife).
“We Shall Behold Him” and “He Looked Beyond My Fault” have become so popular among African American churches that they were included in the African American Heritage Hymnal (GIA Publications, 2001).
Monday, May 19, 1:00 PM – MEMORIAL SERVICE
Dottie Rambo home-going celebration service:
Christ Church
15354 Old Hickory Blvd.
Nashville, TN 37211
Saturday, May 17, 4-8 PM – VISITATION
Sunday, May 18 from 2-4 PM – VISITATION
Woodlawn-Roesch-Patton Funeral Home
660 Thompson Lane
Nashville, TN 37204
Visitations and memorial service: open to the public.
There will be a private reception for close friends and relatives at the church on Monday, May 19 from 11 AM – 12:30 PM.
Private entombment: mausoleum at Woodlawn-Roesch-Patton Memorial Park will be for family only immediately following her Home-going Celebration.
Donations in Dottie’s memory may be made to the:
Dottie Rambo Memorial Fund
P. O. Box 50508
Nashville, TN 37205
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Written by : Bob Marovich
Bob Marovich is a gospel music historian, author, and radio host. Founder of Journal of Gospel Music blog (formally The Black Gospel Blog) and producer of the Gospel Memories Radio Show.
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we loved her so much and she touched many lives through her beautiful music.
what a legacy she leaves. god bless all her family and friends as we love dottie. i remember going to the rambos concerts 40 years ago and being blessed and still today enjoyed watching her on tbn
i WAS SHOCKED AND SADDEN WHEN i HEARD OF THE PASSING OF DOTTIE RAMBO . MY SYMPATHY TO HER FAMILY AND SHE WILL BE SORELY MISSED. RIP DOTTIE LOVE YOU!!!!