Kern County sheriff’s deputies found steel guitar player Larry Petree and his wife, Betty, in a remote stretch of desert Aug. 21.
A longtime Bakersfield musician and his wife were recently found dead, stranded on a dirt road in a remote stretch of desert east of California City, authorities said.
“It will probably always be a mystery how they wound up out in the desert,” said Petree’s friend Norm Hamlet, 87, a steel guitar player who backed Merle Haggard for 49 years in The Strangers. Larry Petree, second from left, plays with The Soda Crackers at the Bakersfield Music Hall of Fame in Bakersfield on July 30.
When Hamlet was home from Haggard tours, he’d visit Petree at his home, where everything was always neat as a pin.“Since high school we’d get together and if he’d learned some new thing, he’d show me, and if I had learned something, I’d show him,” Hamlet said. Betty wasn’t one of the wives who followed her husband to every show. She was a painter with her own interests. But they were inseparable, said friend Kim Hays.
“Everybody liked him because he was a team player. People like the ones who don’t act like they’re all that,” Lewis said. “But the thing is, Larry was all that.”
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