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Irby Mandrell, who taught his daughter Barbara to play an array of musical instruments at the shop he ran in Oceanside, Calif., then helped guide her country singing career as her longtime manager, died Thursday at
Mr.
Mandrell died in Baptist Hospital in Nashville after a stroke, Barbara Mandrell said Friday.
Irby Mandrell had his own dreams of becoming a country music star.
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Born in Hot Springs, Ark., in , he got his start singing and playing guitar on a radio program there. After serving in the Navy during World War II, he became a traveling musician and met his wife, Mary, in Illinois. They married in and moved to Texas and California, where he opened Oceanside Music Supply.
Mr.
Mandrell and his wife, who also had a music background, taught Barbara, their oldest child, to read and play music as a young girl. By the time she was in 5th grade, she was playing accordion, banjo, pedal steel guitar and saxophone.
At 11 she had her first professional gig, playing steel guitar with