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BARTEE HAILE
A thousand people, mourners and the morbidly curious, squeezed into a Lubbock church on Feb. 7, 1959 for the funeral of hometown rock-androller Buddy Holly.
A skinny musician from Littlefield would have given anything to have been there for his hero’s send-off, but Waylon Jennings was stuck in the frozen North finishing the tour that had not missed a beat since the fatal plane crash four days…