SOUTH
TENNESSEE MAY EXHUME TAMMY WYNETTE'S BODY
* 02/09/99
Orlando Sentinel
(Copyright 1999 by The Orlando Sentinel)
NASHVILLE, Tenn. - The Nashville-area medical examiner said Monday
* he would consider exhuming the body of country music star Tammy
Wynette for an autopsy almost a year after her doctor declared her
dead from a blood clot. Davidson County Medical Examiner Bruce Levy
said Wynette's three daughters and their lawyer "raised several
issues" in requesting the autopsy and that he would make a decision
in the next day or two. Levy said he spoke to Wynette's physician at
the time, and considering Wynette's medical history, thought that a
blood clot was "not an unreasonable diagnosis to make. But questions
have been raised since then about the medications she may have been
on."
