Vivian Distin

Age: 71

Summary: first wife of Johnny Cash and the woman he pledged to remain faithful to in the song I Walk the Line who exchanged more than 10,000 pages of letters during their courtship, which she was using for an autobiography scheduled in 2006 (tentatively entitled I Walked the Line).

Cause of Death: Complications from surgery for lung cancer

Born: April 23, 1934

Died: May 24, 2005

Location: Ventura, California