MENDOTA- Carol L. Swope, 72, of Mendota passed away Aug. 27, 2017 in Alden Debes Rehabilitation and Health Care Center in Rockford....
Two days before the crash that killed him at 26, Redding had recorded the vocals for aching ballad (Sittinâ On) The Dock of the Bay. Four miles outside Madison, Wisconsin, December 10, 1967, hampered by low cloud cover and cold weather, the eight-seater private plane carrying 26-year-old soul star Otis Redding hit trouble.
How many children did Otis redding have? Otis Redding had three children, with his wife Zelma. The couple  had two sons, Otis III and Dexter and a daughter, Karla. His most  well-known song, Dock of the Bay, was reâ¦corded just three days  before he died in a plane crash. He is buried at his family ranch,  20-miles outside Macon, Georgia.