This one wasn't listed four months ago at the time of his death, but it involves another country music performer, this one from the 1980s. (And I apologize if this subverts any rules about the latest after someone's passing a notice can be listed.)
Razzy Bailey, whom some of you may remember for songs like "Lovin' Up a Storm," "I Keep Coming Back," "Friends," "Midnight Hauler" and "She Left Love All Over Me" (all No. 1 hits between the fall of 1980 and the spring of 1982), passed away Aug. 4, age 82. One of his earliest big breaks was as a songwriter, on the 1976 Dickey Lee hit "9,999,999 Tears."
I noted a week or so earlier, with the death of 1950s/1960s star Stonewall Jackson, that almost all of the 1950s stars are gone. In the past several years, it's really encroached upon the 1980s.
As I said earlier, please enjoy them while you can.
https://www.wideopencountry.com/razzy-bailey/