Gospel singer Dottie Joyce Rambo dies
(Published May 11, 2008)
MOUNT VERNON, Mo. — Gospel singer-songwriter Joyce “Dottie” Rambo died early Sunday when the bus she was in ran off a road in southwest Missouri and struck an embankment.
Rambo, 74, of Nashville, Tenn., died in the crash about two miles east of Mount Vernon on Interstate 44, the Missouri State Highway Patrol said. Seven other people in the bus were injured, and were hospitalized in Springfield with moderate to severe injuries, the patrol said.
Rambo wrote and published some 2,500 songs, winning gospel song of the year in 1982. She entered the Nashville Songwriters’ Hall of Fame last year.
Some songs written by Dottie:
- We Shall Behold Him
- Holy Spirit Thou Art Welcome
- I Go to the Rock
- Sheltered in the Arms of God
- He Looked Beyond My Fault
- Tears Will Never Stain The Streets Of That City
- If That Isn’t Love
