Here, we honor the late Terry Kirkman by looking at the No. 1 hit he penned for ‘60s pop group The Association: the sweetly melodramatic ballad “Cherish ... “That I am not gonna be ...

"I'm hurting," he said. "I'm pastor, but I'm hurting." His task was to deliver a eulogy for Cherish Lily Perrywinkle. And while he was speaking to the hundreds of people in the church's auditorium ...

Cherish was then strangled and dumped in a creek bed. Perrywinkle told Judge Mallory Cooper that the pain of losing Cherish is a strong today as a it was in June 2013.