Chronicle: Veteran Nashville publicist Cathy Gurley passed Tuesday (1/20) at 76 years old after months-long gastrointestinal issues. The Pittsburgh native's first job after college was as a features writer at the Wheeling News-Register, followed by WWVA-AM/Wheeling, WV, where she co-founded the Jamboree In The Hills festival. Gurley moved to Nashville in 1982 to become the Dir./Public Information at the CMA, and opened Gurley & Co. in 1985, representing Tanya Tucker, Lynn Anderson, Kathy Mattea, Marty Stuart and Patty Loveless, among others. Nonprofit work included T.J. Martell's Country in the Rockies, the Nashville Coalition Against Domestic Violence, Friends of Warner Park and McNeilly Center for Children. In 2012, Gurley became the CEO of You Have the Power, an organization created by former Tennessee First Lady Andrea Conte that focuses on those touched by violent crime. She was inducted into the SOURCE Hall of Fame in 2018. Services will be held in the spring at Christ the King Church on Belmont Boulevard in Nashville. Memorial donations can be made to She Should Run and the Children's Memory Garden at Centennial Park.