Rick & Kris Nelson, c1964 (By ABC Television)
To all of our Nelson fans and friends,
As many of you might have already heard, our mother Kristin Harmon passed away from natural causes… We wanted to send you a heartfelt thank you for all your kind words of support for us.
We hope you understand if we take some much needed time to process and heal from this change in our lives, and ask you to respect our need for privacy during the trying time for our family.
Love and Affection,
Gunnar and Matthew
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Sharon Kristin Nelson (née Harmon; June 25, 1945 – April 27, 2018) was an American primitive painter, actress and author, once married to the actor and musician Ricky Nelson.
Daughter of the American football star Tom Harmon and actress/model Elyse Knox, her younger siblings are model-actress Kelly Harmon and actor Mark Harmon [NCIS].
Aged 17, she married Nelson in 1963 and joined their family television show. The couple had four children, but their extravagant lifestyle forced Nelson to tour for long periods, placing great pressure on the marriage. A long-fought divorce was finally granted before Rick Nelson’s death in an air-crash in 1985.
In 1988, she married Mark Tinker, who encouraged her to paint. Her brightly colored primitives found favor with Jacqueline Kennedy and Mia Farrow, among other celebrities, and they form the basis of her coffee-table autobiography Out of My Mind.
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Her daughter, actress Tracy Nelson, announced on Facebook that her mother had suddenly died on April 27, 2018 of a heart attack.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristin_Nelson
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Other Notable Musicians’ Deaths…
May 2018
24: Ivan Khristoforov (ru), 83, Russian singer.
21: Vasilis Triantafillidis, 78, Greek comedian and singer; Gina Zamparelli, 59, American concert promoter, glioblastoma.
20: Dieter Schnebel, 88, German composer.
19: Anthony Cruz, Puerto Rican-American salsa singer: Reggie Lucas, 65, American songwriter (“Borderline”, “Never Knew Love Like This Before”) and record producer, Grammy winner (1981), complications from heart disease.
16: Hideki Saijo, 63, Japanese singer, heart failure.
13: Glenn Branca, 69, American avant-garde composer (The Ascension) and guitarist (Theoretical Girls), throat cancer.