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Winchester; Patsy Cline Grave
Patsy Cline was born in Winchester Virginia in 1932. She first went to Nashville in 1948 but couldn't afford to stay. She became a regular on a Washington DC radio show in 1954 and then began making appearances on the Grand Ole Opry in 1955, becoming a formal member of it in 1960. In 1957, she made it big by doing an appearance on the Arthur Godfrey Show.
Her first marriage had ended in divorce and she married Charles Dick from Winchester in 1957. She dropped out of show business in 1958 to be a housewife and mother. But they knew the music had to continue so they moved to Nashville. Her first big hit, "I Fall To Pieces", was taking off in June 1961 when she was injured in a car accident which hospitalized her for months. "I Fall To Pieces" would be her first number 1 country hit. when came "Crazy" (by Willie Nelson) and "Heartaches". (She didn't write her own material.)
In 1963, she was killed in a plane crash.
Here's her rather simple burial marker in Winchester Virginia. |