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All seven on board were killed upon impact. Three members of the gospel quartet The Nelons—vocalist Kelly Nelon Clark, her husband Jason, and her daughter Amber—as well as the pilot, Georgia Department of Corrections chairman Larry Haynie, were among the deceased. The crash started a wildfire which was quickly contained by firefighting ...
A plane crash in Wyoming on Friday, July 26, claimed the lives of three members of The Nelons, a popular family gospel group.. Four others who were onboard the plane also died in the crash.
Three members of the family gospel group The Nelons were killed in a plane crash in Wyoming on Friday afternoon that also claimed the lives of four others, including the pilot.
The group was traveling to join the Gaither Homecoming Cruise to Alaska, according to a statement from Gaither Music Group, the sponsor of the cruise that features numerous gospel singers and groups.
The group was a spin-off of the family group The Lefevres. They became known as The Rex Nelon Singers in 1976 because the Lefevre family members left the group. The group's first number-one song was "Come Morning" on the Singing News Chart, [4] and was awarded the Southern Gospel Song of the Decade for the 1980s.
When Nelon Streetman's mother, stepfather, sister, and brother-in-law were killed in a private plane crash in July 2024, she was left as sole survivor of her immediate family. [9] The Nelons were scheduled to perform as a group with other Southern Gospel and Christian singers and musicians on a week-long Gaither Homecoming cruise to Alaska that ...
The group, formerly The Rex Nelon Singers, was first formed in 1977 by Rex Nelon as a spinoff of the group The Lefevres. The Nelons were inducted into the Gospel Music Association Hall of Fame in ...
On Instagram, Gaither Management Group wrote: “One of the best loved Gospel music families in America, The Nelons were involved in a tragic, fatal plane crash on Friday afternoon on their way to ...