Katherine Williams-Dunning, Daughter of Country Singer Hank Williams Jr., Killed in Car Accident

Katherine Williams-Dunning, daughter of nation music star Hank Williams Jr. and granddaughter of nation legend Hank Williams, died this weekend on the age of 27. In keeping with Billboard, Williams-Dunning and her husband, Tyler Dunning, had been in a single-vehicle accident Saturday night time, leading to her 2007 Chevrolet Tahoe rolling over on a freeway in Henry County, Tennessee. The Tennessee Freeway Patrol confirmed her loss of life. Tyler Dunning survived after being airlifted to a hospital, however no data is accessible as of but about his situation.

“I’ve no phrases. On Friday morning, I talked the household into taking this image and had no concept it might be our final along with my treasured little sister Katie,” Williams-Dunning’s sister, singer Holly Williams, wrote in an Instagram post Sunday. “ALL we’d like is prayers. My daddy. My little brother. Katie’s husband (he’s awake and responding don’t know damage extent but). My niece and nephew. Her Mama. The Dunning household. All of us.”

 

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I have no words. On Friday morning I talked the family into taking this picture and had no idea it would be our last together with my precious little sister Katie. We all went to my great aunts funeral on Thursday whom we all loved dearly, and now are faced with another one. ALL we need is prayers. My daddy. My little brother. Katie’s husband (he is awake and responding don’t know injury extent yet). My niece and nephew. Her Mama. The Dunning family. All of us. So. Many. Prayers. Jesus is close. Thank you all 🙏🏼❤️ Be merciful to me, O LORD, for I am in distress; my eyes grow weak with sorrow, my soul and my body with grief. Psalm 31:9

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Katherine Williams-Dunning, daughter of singer Hank Williams Jr. and granddaughter of Alabama-born nation music legend Hank Williams, was killed in a automobile crash in Tennessee on Saturday night time. She was 27.

Williams-Dunning, known as “Katie” by household, was driving a 2007 Chevrolet Tahoe and towing a ship at about 7:45 p.m. on Freeway 79 close to Paris, Tenn., west of Kentucky Lake and about 110 miles west of Nashville, when the car crossed the median, rolled over, and got here to a cease on the shoulder, in response to The Information Observers. She died on the scene.

Her husband, Tyler Dunning, 29, was within the car. He was airlifted to Vanderbilt College Medical Heart and was awake and responding, in response to a social media publish by Katherine’s sister, singer Holly Williams, who was born in Cullman.

The Dunnings had been married Oct. 15, 2015 and have two youngsters, Beau, 5, and Audrey, 2.

Katherine Williams-Dunning was Hank Jr.’s daughter along with his third spouse, Mary Jane Thomas, in response to CMT. They’ve been married since 1990. Hank Jr. has 5 youngsters, together with from earlier marriages to Becky White and Gwen Yeargain. Sam Williams, the youngest of the 5 youngsters, pursued a musical profession. In contrast to her siblings, Katherine by no means pursued a singing profession.

Hank Jr., who has lived in Alabama at instances, adopted his well-known father into nation music stardom, typically performing his father’s songs, however steered his personal course and is greatest identified for hit songs together with “A Nation Boy Can Survive,” “Household Custom,” and “All My Rowdy Mates Are Coming Over Tonight,” which turned the theme track to open NFL broadcasts for Monday Night time Soccer. Hank Jr. carried out at Oak Mountain Amphitheater in Pelham on Oct. 25, 2018, as a part of the Lynyrd Skynyrd Farewell Tour. He performed June 14, 2019, on the Tuscaloosa Amphitheater.