Country Singer Ray Price Dead at 87

MOUNT PLEASANT (AP/Staff) � Ray Price, a towering traditional country singer who was one of the last living connections to Hank Williams, has died. He was 87. Billy Mack Jr., the son of legendary county DJ Bill Mack, says Price died Monday afternoon. Price had pancreatic cancer. He had recently left East Texas Medical Center in Tyler for hospice care at his home in Mt. Pleasant. Mack, a family friend, said he was acting as a family spokesman. Price was perhaps best known for his version of the Kris Kristofferson-written song �For the Good Times� in 1970 that became a pop hit. He was one of the most influential figures in country music in the 1960s and `70s, helping define the genre�s honky-tonk sound early in his career, then taking it in a more polished direction later.