![]() ![]() ![]() It wasn’t until her 21st birthday, when she was due to inherit $2,000 from the estate of her grandmother, Lillian Williams Stone - Hank Williams’ mother - that the Deuprees told her who she might be related to. “My parents had some idea of who I was, but they didn’t have the full story,” Jett says. The good came from strong friendships and her middle-class parents’ ability and willingness to see that she received a good education. The bad came from her mother’s alcoholism and aloofness, and the fact that her new parents were almost old enough to be her grandparents. It was an ordinary childhood, some good, some bad. Jett Williams grew up with adoptive parents in Mobile, Ala., with the name Cathy Deupree. “But the injustice to my father and his expressed wishes, and how they used me when it benefited them to keep control of his song catalog. ![]() “It’s not just that I want the money,” Jett says. Jett is entitled to a share of royalties back to 1985, the year she began suing for her rights. Published estimates place annual royalties at $1 million or more on the 150 or so songs written by Hank Williams Sr. ![]()
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