Virginia Patterson Hensley, know as Patsy Cline, was born in the Shenandoah Valley in Winchester, Virginia, on September 8, 1932. Patsy Cline’s childhood home was in nearby Gore, Virginia. Legend has it that she was entertaining her neighbors as early as the age of 3 years old. By the time Cline’s started school, her family was fully aware of her talent. On Cline’s eighth birthday, her mother presented her with a piano, on which Patsy learned early musical education. On Sundays, she sang with the local church choir, and at age 14, was singing regularly on local radio station WINC. When Patsy was 15, her parents divorced, reportedly due to her father's heavy drinking. Without her father around to pay the bills, Patsy helped her mother earn money
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The plane crashed in the woods near Camden, Tennessee, approximately 90 miles outside Nashville, and killed everyone on board instantly. Strangely, Cline had written her will some months before and designated friends to care for her children in the event of her death. She was laid to rest at Shenandoah Memorial Park in Winchester, Virginia, per her wishes.
A bell tower has been erected in her memory at the Shenandoah Memorial Park, where Patsy Cline is interred. Several Highways, including the Patsy Cline Memorial Highway, Route 522, and Patsy Cline Boulevard in Winchester, have been named to commemorate her life.
She left the world with, as her Country Music Hall of Fame plaque states, a "heritage of timeless recordings...[a] testimony to her artistic capacity"—an impressive legacy for only three decades on earth.
In 1973 Patsy was elected posthumously to the Country Music Hall of Fame, and her reputation is on record as one of the major female vocalists of all time. It's hard to believe Patsy Cline's legendary career spanned just three albums and five-and-a-half years, but the woman behind the classic voice only lived until the age of
The plane crashed in the woods near Camden, Tennessee, approximately 90 miles outside Nashville, and killed everyone on board instantly. Strangely, Cline had written her will some months before and designated friends to care for her children in the event of her death. She was laid to rest at Shenandoah Memorial Park in Winchester, Virginia, per her wishes.
A bell tower has been erected in her memory at the Shenandoah Memorial Park, where Patsy Cline is interred. Several Highways, including the Patsy Cline Memorial Highway, Route 522, and Patsy Cline Boulevard in Winchester, have been named to commemorate her life.
She left the world with, as her Country Music Hall of Fame plaque states, a "heritage of timeless recordings...[a] testimony to her artistic capacity"—an impressive legacy for only three decades on earth.
In 1973 Patsy was elected posthumously to the Country Music Hall of Fame, and her reputation is on record as one of the major female vocalists of all time. It's hard to believe Patsy Cline's legendary career spanned just three albums and five-and-a-half years, but the woman behind the classic voice only lived until the age of