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Funeral set Thursday for singer Henson Cargill
Funeral services for Oklahoma City-born country music star Henson Cargill will be at 2 p.m. Thursday at Highland Hills Baptist Church, 7900 Devore.
The singer died Saturday in Oklahoma City from complications following surgery. He was 66.
Cargill graduated from Northwest Classen High School.
He was best-known for his million-selling 1968 hit "Skip a Rope.”
Cargill also owned and operated Henson's in the 1980s, a west-Oklahoma City country music showplace that hosted such acts as Ray Charles, Merle Haggard, Roy Orbison, Glenn Campbell, Waylon Jennings and Cargill's friend and mentor, Johnny Cash.
Cash became Cargill's friend and adviser. Cash urged Cargill to go to Nashville, Tenn., and record.
His first hit, "Skip a Rope,” topped the country charts for five weeks and was also a crossover success in the pop music charts.
Cargill's other hits included "None of My Business” and "The Most Uncomplicated Good-Bye I've Ever Heard.”
Cargill is survived by two sons, Cash Cargill of Edmond and Clayton K. Cargill of Eagle Rock, Mo.; daughter Nicole Duran of Edmond; five sisters, Carol Lash of Oklahoma City, Christy Best of Santa Cruz., Calif., Angela St. John of Montrose, Colo., Jennifer Cargill of Chicago, and Kima Cargill of Seattle; one brother, John R. Cargill of Santa Cruz, Calif.; and four grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by his older brother, O.A. Cargill III.
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