In an unexpected turn of events, a lady from New York named Diane Olson showed up at Ritchie Valens' funeral and told the Valenzuela family she was engaged to their late son. Nobody knew her ...

Ritchie was away that day at his grandfather’s funeral. Still, Valens avoided planes after that — although not the one he should have avoided. After the graduation ceremony, Bob’s mother ...

Ritchie Valens was an immediate sensation ... Members of the Silhouettes served as pallbearers. "After the funeral I came home and cried like a baby for a very long time," the band's vibes player, Gil ...

Twin Cities funeral director Marvin D. McKee, who in 1959 prepared the bodies of famed rockers Buddy Holly and Ritchie Valens after they were killed in an airplane crash in Iowa, died on March 17 ...

Ritchie Valens was rescued from obscurity by a 1987 movie, “La Bamba,” that finally put the Southern California teen’s story ahead of Buddy Holly and the Big Bopper, the two older singers ...