Born in Jacksonville, Florida, he died during a tour when the band's jet ran out of fuel over a Mississippi swamp and crashed. VanZant, Steve and Cassie Gaines were killed and all the other band members were injured also.
In early 1964, Ronnie heard that a group of students he knew at Lakeshore Junior High were putting together a band and needed a singer.
Ronnie married Judy Seymour in Waycross, Georgia on November 18, 1972.
Ronnie was memorialized with a simple, ten minute private service under cloudy skies in Orange Park, Florida surrounded by 150 close friends and family.
That's how it was with RonnieVanZant and a group of young guys he pulled together in the '60s who came to be known as Lynyrd Skynyrd.
VanZant was born on January 15, 1948, in Jacksonville, FL, and was raised on the rough Westside of the city where money was often scarce and street fights were the norm instead of the exception.
RonnieVanZant was a great baseball player and dreamed of going pro one day, but it seemed his main love was music.
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