Country music legend Ray Price dies at 87:
family spokesman
Ray Price arrives at the 39th annual Academy of Country Music
Awards at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas, Nevada, May 26, 2004.
Country singer Ray
Price, a pioneer of Texas honky-tonk music who later applied his rich baritone
to lushly arranged ballads for pop crossover hits, died on Monday at the age of
87, a family spokesman and a funeral home said.
"Ray Price,
legendary country music artist, passed away Monday, December 16, 2013, at his
home in Mount Pleasant, Texas," the Restland Funeral Home, in Dallas, said
in a statement.
Price had been
battling pancreatic cancer.
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