Townes Van Zandt - Frequently Asked Questions:
John Townes Van Zandt was born March 7, 1944 in Ft. Worth Texas.
He married Fran Petters in 1965. The marriage produced a son, John Townes Van Zandt II born April 11, 1969 in Houston TX. Townes and his first wife (Fran) were divorced in January 1970.
Townes married his second wife, Cindy, in Nashville in September 1978 (they had lived together since late 1974); they were divorced on February 10 1983 in Travis County Texas.
Townes third and final marriage was to Jeanene Munsell, who was born in Corpus Christi, Texas on February 21, 1957. The pair met in Austin TX December 9th 1980 the day after John Lennon was killed. They took up residency together that very day. They were legally married March 14, 1983 ten days before the birth of their first child William Vincent. Their second child, Katie Belle Van Zandt was born nine years later on February 14, 1992 in Nashville, TN. They were divorced May 2, 1994 although they remained extremely close and bought a second home together on Old Hickory Lake in Mt. Juliet TN which Townes named Bayou Self. When off the road back home in Tennessee, Townes split his time between the family home, The Ponderosa when he was behaving well enough to be around the children and Bayou Self when he wasn't. Townes died at the lakehouse in Mt. Juliet of a heart attack following hip surgery on New Years Day, 1997. age 53.
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