Slim Whitman - Personal Life

Personal Life

Whitman's wife of sixty-seven years, from 1941, was songwriter and embroiderer Alma Geraldine (Gerry) Crist, the daughter of a church minister. Geraldine died as a result from complications arising from kidney failure. Whitman has a daughter Sharon, and a son Byron K. Whitman, who is also a performer and who has toured and recorded with Whitman on numerous occasions.

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