After seven years of battling the illness , he died at the age of 82 at the Skyline Medical Center in Nashville , Tennessee , on September 16 , 2003 .
Wooley was diagnosed with leukemia in 1996 .
After seven years of battling the illness , Wooley died at the age of 82 at the Skyline Medical Center in Nashville , Tennessee , on September 16 , 2003 .
Wooley was diagnosed with leukemia in 1996 .