Del Shannon Del Shannon Del Shannon (born Charles Weedon Westover; December 30, 1934 – February 8, 1990) was an American rock and roll and country musician and singer-songwriter, best known for his 1961 number 1 "Billboard" hit "Runaway". Westover was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and grew up in nearby Coopersville. He learned to play the ukulele and guitar and listened to country-and-western music, by artists such as Hank Williams, Hank Snow, and Lefty Frizzell. He was drafted into the Army in 1954, and while in Germany played guitar in a band called "The Cool Flames". When his service ended, he returned
Charles Fenton Collier After the war, Collier served six terms as mayor of Petersburg, from 1866 to 1868 and 1888 to 1892. In the spring of 1899 he ran for mayor once more, losing by six votes. Collier committed suicide in the morning of June 28, 1899 by shooting himself in the head. The "New York Times" reported the cause as "insomnia, melancholia, and nervous prostration." He was buried in Blandford Cemetery, Petersburg. Charles Fenton Collier Charles Fenton Collier (1828 – June 29, 1899) was an American politician. He served in the Confederate States House of Representatives and the Virginia House of Delegates,