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标题：Wynette's body exhumed
作者：JIM PATTERSON
期刊名称：The Topeka Capital-Journal
印刷版ISSN：1067-1994
出版年度：1999
卷号：Apr 15, 1999
出版社：Morris Multimedia, Inc.

Wynette's body exhumed

JIM PATTERSON

The Associated Press

NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- The body of country music legend Tammy Wynette was exhumed Wednesday and an autopsy performed to try to answer lingering questions about what caused her death.

Widower George Richey, Wynette's fifth husband and the subject of a $50 million wrongful death lawsuit brought by three of her daughters, requested the exhumation and autopsy. The results are expected in four to six weeks. In a lawsuit filed last week, the daughters claim Wynette died because her doctor, Dr. Wallis Marsh of Pittsburgh, didn't monitor her condition closely enough and overprescribed medication. Three of her four daughters -- Tina Jones, Georgette Smith and Jackie Daly -- believe Wynette could have lived longer with better medical care. Marsh, who practices at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, issued a statement last week denying any wrongdoing. Richey discovered Wynette's body in their Nashville home on April 6, 1998. Marsh flew in to sign the death certificate and listed the cause of death as a blood clot to the lungs.