Editing The Day the Music Died (section)

==Aftermath==
[[File:The Day the Music Died - The Vancouver Sun (1959).jpg|thumb|right|Newspaper clipping, February 3, 1959]]
María Elena Holly learned of her husband's death via a television news report. A widow after only six months of marriage, she suffered a [[miscarriage]] shortly after, reportedly due to "[[psychological trauma]]". Holly's mother, on hearing the news on the radio at home in [[Lubbock, Texas]], screamed and collapsed.<ref name="Suddath"/>

Despite the tragedy, the "Winter Dance Party" tour continued. Fifteen-year-old [[Bobby Vee]] was given the task of filling in for Holly at the next scheduled performance in Moorhead, in part because he "knew all the words to all the songs."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://bobbyvee.net/Bio.html |title=Bobby Vee Biography |website=bobbyvee.net |at=Paragraph 3 |access-date=2020-12-22 |archive-date=January 29, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190129014717/http://bobbyvee.net/Bio.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> Jennings and Allsup carried on for two more weeks, with Jennings taking Holly's place as lead singer.{{sfn|Carr|Munde|1997|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=6Q2QhJf4jR0C&dq=Waylon+Jennings+KLLL&pg=PT166 155]}} Other performers who were recruited for the remainder of the tour were [[Jimmy Clanton]], [[Fabian Forte|Fabian]] and [[Frankie Avalon]].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Genetti |first1=Domenic |title=Winter Dance Party's resilience after plane crash killed Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, The Big Bopper |url=https://www.beaumontenterprise.com/news/article/buddy-holly-crash-anniversary-18644502.php |access-date=14 May 2024 |work=Beaumony Enterprise |date=February 2, 2024}}</ref>

Meanwhile, funerals for the victims were held individually. Holly and Richardson were buried in Texas, Valens in [[California]] and Peterson in Iowa. Holly's widow, María Elena, did not attend his funeral.<ref>{{Cite news|last=McLean|first=Craig|date=2019-02-01|title='He knew he was going to die': Buddy Holly's widow on keeping his memory alive|language=en-GB|work=The Telegraph|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/music/artists/knew-going-die-buddy-hollys-widow-keeping-memory-alive/ |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/music/artists/knew-going-die-buddy-hollys-widow-keeping-memory-alive/ |archive-date=January 12, 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|access-date=2020-05-28|issn=0307-1235}}{{cbignore}}</ref> She said in an interview: "In a way, I blame myself. I was not feeling well when he left. I was two weeks pregnant, and I wanted Buddy to stay with me, but he had scheduled that tour. It was the only time I wasn't with him. And I blame myself because I know that, if only I had gone along, Buddy never would have gotten into that airplane."<ref>{{cite news  |url=http://www.lubbockonline.com/stories/081508/loc_318846994.shtml |title=Buddy and Maria Elena Holly married 50 years ago |first=William |last=Kerns |work=Lubbock Avalanche-Journal |date=August 15, 2008 |access-date=April 29, 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160323234441/http://lubbockonline.com/stories/081508/loc_318846994.shtml |archive-date=March 23, 2016}}</ref>