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In 1962, eighteen months after the accident, despite various hospital procedures, Tomlinson lost his left leg. He died in Shreveport<ref name=ancestry>{{cite web|url=http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?gl=allgs&gss=sfs28_ms_f-2_s&new=1&rank=1&msT=1&gsfn=Gerald%20Delmar&gsln=Tomlinson&mswpn__ftp=Minden%2C%20Webster%2C%20Louisiana%2C%20USA&mswpn=34638&mswpn_PInfo=8-%7C0%7C1652393%7C0%7C2%7C3246%7C21%7C0%7C3115%7C34638%7C0%7C&MSAV=0&msbdy=1930&cp=0&catbucket=rstp&uidh=upc|title=Gerald Delmar Tomlinson|publisher=search.ancestry.com|accessdate=October 26, 2020}}</ref> of [[heart]] failure twenty years later in the spring of 1982 at the age of fifty-one. Still active, he had performed with his band, the Country Connection, the night before his death.<ref name=hmusic/>
In 1962, eighteen months after the accident, despite various hospital procedures, Tomlinson lost his left leg. He died in Shreveport<ref name=ancestry>{{cite web|url=http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?gl=allgs&gss=sfs28_ms_f-2_s&new=1&rank=1&msT=1&gsfn=Gerald%20Delmar&gsln=Tomlinson&mswpn__ftp=Minden%2C%20Webster%2C%20Louisiana%2C%20USA&mswpn=34638&mswpn_PInfo=8-%7C0%7C1652393%7C0%7C2%7C3246%7C21%7C0%7C3115%7C34638%7C0%7C&MSAV=0&msbdy=1930&cp=0&catbucket=rstp&uidh=upc|title=Gerald Delmar Tomlinson|publisher=search.ancestry.com|accessdate=October 26, 2020}}</ref> of [[heart]] failure twenty years later in the spring of 1982 at the age of fifty-one. Still active, he had performed with his band, the Country Connection, the night before his death.<ref name=hmusic/>
On April 27, 1967, Tomlinson married the former Katherine Seward (born 1931) in Harrison County in East Texas, just west of Shreveport, thirty-five days after the birth of his youngest child, Thomas Tillman Tomlinson (born March 23, 1967), who resides in Shreveport.<ref name=ancestry/> At the time of his death in 1982, Tomlinson had in addition to Thomas Tillman four other living children, Del Marie, Jackie, Donna, and Doug.<ref name=hmusic/> He had a younger brother, Houston E. Tomlinson (1933–1996), who served in the [[United States Army]] during the [[Korean War]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Tomlinson&GSfn=Houston&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSob=n&GRid=53116512&df=all&|title=Houston E. Tomlinson|publisher=findagrave.com|accessdate=July 1, 2015}}</ref> Along with their parents, Tommy and Houston Tomlinson are interred at Gardens of Memory Cemetery in Minden.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Tomlinson&GSfn=Gerald&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSst=20&GScntry=4&GSob=n&GRid=69631690&df=all&|title=Gerald Delmar "Tommy" Tomlinson|publisher=findagrave.com|date=May 10, 2011|accessdate=October 25, 2020}}</ref> Brother Bill Tomlinson is interred at Lane Memorial Cemetery in Sibley in south Webster Parish.<ref name=billtom/>
On April 27, 1967, Tomlinson married the former Katherine Seward (born 1931) in Harrison County in East Texas, just west of Shreveport, thirty-five days after the birth of his youngest child, Thomas Tillman Tomlinson (born March 23, 1967), who resides in Shreveport.<ref name=ancestry/> At the time of his death in 1982, Tomlinson had in addition to Thomas Tillman four other living children, Del Marie, Jackie, Donna, and Doug.<ref name=hmusic/> He had a younger brother, Houston E. Tomlinson (1933–1996), who served in the [[United States Army]] during the [[Korean War]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Tomlinson&GSfn=Houston&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSob=n&GRid=53116512&df=all&|title=Houston E. Tomlinson|publisher=findagrave.com|accessdate=October 26, 2020}}</ref> Along with their parents, Tommy and Houston Tomlinson are interred at Gardens of Memory Cemetery in Minden.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Tomlinson&GSfn=Gerald&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSst=20&GScntry=4&GSob=n&GRid=69631690&df=all&|title=Gerald Delmar "Tommy" Tomlinson|publisher=findagrave.com|date=May 10, 2011|accessdate=October 25, 2020}}</ref> Brother Bill Tomlinson is interred at Lane Memorial Cemetery in Sibley in south Webster Parish.<ref name=billtom/>
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