Dottie Rambo Remembered

5/20/2008 LIsa Ann Schleipfer More than 2,000 people gathered at the Christ Church in Nashville yesterday to celebrate and mourn the late Dottie Rambo. The gospel music superstar was killed in a bus accident in Missouri on May 11. Music greats the Blackwood Brothers, The Crabb Family, Andrae Crouch, Jessy Dixon, Gloria and Bill Gaither, The Hoppers, The Issacs, Babbie Mason, Oak Ridge Boys, Sandi Patty, and Michael W. Smith were included in the choir that sang a concert of Rambo's songs.  A Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame inductee, Rambo wrote more than 2,500 songs during her career that spoke of her Christian faith.  At the age of 74, she was to release her next album, Sheltered, this summer. The gospel artist was to be formerally inducted into the Christian Hall of Fame this June. Gloria Gaither told The Tennesean this week that Rambo, "…had the rare gift of a poet and an even rarer gift of being capable of creating both great poetry and composing the perfect musical chariot to carry it to the soul. … She knew the song would outlive her… The song would remain."