The couple remained married until Cline’s tragic death on March 5, 1963, in an airplane crash just a few miles north of Camden, Tenn. With the relationships that Dick had built in the industry through their marriage, he entered the music business on his own following her passing, working as a record promoter for several independent labels in Nashville throughout the 1960s and 1970s, such as Starday Records. He remarried in 1965 to newcomer Jamey Ryan, but the couple divorced in the early 1970s after having a son together.