Renowned DJ and music producer Teresa Kaye Bristol, aka Teri Bristol, died Sept. 25 in Beechgrove, Tennessee of kidney failure, following an over three-year battle with the disease. She was 66.
Bristol was born Dec. 26, 1956, in Joliet, where she lived with her parents, Bob and Bettie, older brother Tony and younger brother Michael. They moved to Nashville in 1957 where they lived for the next eight years. The family returned to Illinois in 1965 and lived in the small town of Justice adjacent to Chicago. Bristol graduated from Argo Community High School in Summit in 1975.
For the next seven years, Bristol worked in various jobs including as a waitress at Chuck Mueurs in Old Orchard Mall in Skokie; food prepper at Va Pensiero in Evanston; hairdresser-receptionist at Hair Performers in La Grange; and as a cab driver when she lived in near Naples, Florida.
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