Gospel singer Dottie Joyce Rambo dies
May 12, 2008 03:01 EDT

MOUNT VERNON, Mo. (AP) -- Gospel singer-songwriter Joyce "Dottie" Rambo, who published such classics at "We Shall Behold Him," has died. She was 74.

Rambo died early Sunday when the bus she was in ran off a road in southwest Missouri and struck an embankment.

Country singer Dolly Parton called Rambo a "dear friend."

Rambo was inducted to the Kentucky Music Hall of Fame in 2006 and the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2007.

Rambo has had more than 2,500 published songs, including gospel classics such as "He Looked Beyond My Fault and Saw My Need" and the 1982 Gospel Music Association Song of the Year, "We Shall Behold Him."