July 16th 2010
Hank Cochran, 74
Garland Perry Cochran was born August 2, 1935 in Isola, Mississippi. After his parents divorced, when he was 9, his father placed him at St. Peter's Orphans Home in Memphis. At age 12 he hitchhiked with an uncle to Hobbs, New Mexico and spent 2 years laboring in the oil fields there.