Short answers, pulled from the story.
Charles Hardin Holley was born on the 7th of September 1936 and grew up in Lubbock, Texas during the Great Depression. He was the youngest of four children in a family that would eventually shape the sound of rock and roll.
Buddy Holly died in an aircraft crash into a cornfield five miles northwest of Clear Lake shortly after 1:00 a.m. on the 3rd of February 1959. The crash killed Holly, Ritchie Valens, J. P. Richardson, and pilot Roger Peterson while they were traveling to Moorhead, Minnesota.
Buddy Holly adopted his stage name after forming The Crickets to subvert his Decca Records contract limitations. His first hit song That'll Be the Day topped the US Best Sellers in Stores chart on the 23rd of September 1957 and reached number one on the UK Singles Chart for three weeks in November.
Maria Elena Santiago was a receptionist at Peer-Southern who became Buddy Holly's wife after they married on the 15th of August 1958. She catalyzed his artistic evolution by helping him discover that his manager Norman Petty was mismanaging his royalties and facilitating his move to the New York music scene.
Buddy Holly died at the age of 22 in a plane crash on the 3rd of February 1959. His body was interred in the City of Lubbock Cemetery on the 7th of February 1959 and his funeral was officiated by Ben D. Johnson.