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[Friends oft forsake me]

[Friends oft forsake me]

Composer: V. O. Fossett (1939)
Published in 8 hymnals


Composer: V. O. Fossett

Died: December 20, 1964. Buried: Laurel Land Memorial Park, Dallas, Texas. A native of DeKalb County, Alabama, Fossett attended his first Gospel Music School at age 12. At age 16, he attended Thomas Mosley’s Normal School. By age 19, he began singing and playing in a quartet. By 1937, he was teaching in High Point, North Carolina, where he married Katherine Strother. Three years later, he joined the Chattanooga, Tennessee, office of the Stamps-Baxter music publishers. Fossett’s works include: Fossett’s Inspirational Melodies (Dallas, Texas: Stamps-Baxter Music & Printing Company, 1952) --www.hymntime.com/tch/ Go to person page >

Tune Information

Title: [Friends oft forsake me]
Composer: V. O. Fossett (1939)
Incipit: 55565 66117 65632
Copyright: © 1939, by Stamps-Baxter Music and Ptg. Co.

Timeline

Instances

Instances (1 - 8 of 8)

Chiming Bells #109

Gems of Devotion #23

Happy Praise #89

Higher Ground #109

Matchless Gift #89

Text

Melodies of Love #42

Mississippi Melodies #89

Songs for All #105

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