* Rildia Bee O'Bryan Cliburn, the mother of Van Cliburn and his only piano teacher until he was 17, died Wednesday in Fort Worth, Texas, after suffering a stroke. She was 97 and lived in Fort Worth.

* Artie Glenn, 79, whose song "Crying in the Chapel" became a hit for Elvis Presley in 1965, died of a heart attack July 25 in a Dallas hospital.