DALLAS — Tyler Pride, an East Texas police officer who filed suit in Dallas County Probate Court in 2021, contesting the will of his biological father — country music great Charley Pride — said Tuesday that he and the singer’s family have reached a settlement, the terms of which were not disclosed.
Charley Pride died of COVID-19 at age 86 in late 2020, after attending a nationally televised awards show in Nashville, Tennessee, where he also performed. Upon his death, Pride left a will that acknowledged three children, Carlton, Dion and Angela, whose mother is Rozene Pride, the singer’s widow, to whom he was married for 64 years.
Named as executor in her husband’s will, Rozene Pride lives in Dallas, where the singer lived for years. Dallas was also the base of his lucrative business interests and extraordinary musical career, which endured for almost six decades. In 2015, his legacy was memorialized in The Smithsonian, where he’s a fixture in the National Museum of African American History and Culture.
