Patsy Cline Singing with Ernest Tubb
 PATSY CLINE, (Virginia Patterson Hensley)
September 8, 1932 ~ March 5, 1963
was born in the Shenandoah Valley in Winchester, Virginia,
on September 8, 1932. The family home was in nearby Gore.
Legend has it that she was entertaining her neighbors as early as age 3!
Her natural talent and spirit took her to the top of the country charts,
and her style and popularity has never waned.Patsy's big break came when she won an Arthur Godfrey Talent program in 1957
with the hit Walkin' After Midnight. From there she pursued a recording career
appearing at the mecca of country music - the Grand Ole Opry in 1958,
and received national awards in 1961 and 1962. Country music lost a magical entertainer when her career was ended
in an airplane crash in Tennessee, in 1963. In 1973 Patsy was elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame, and
her reputation is on record as one of the major female vocalists of all time.  
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.
Route 522 South (Patsy Cline Memorial Highway)
The Patsy Cline Committee of the Winchester-Frederick County
Chamber of Commerce is committed to perpetuating the memory of
Patsy Cline through the establishment of a
Patsy Cline Museum in Winchester, Virginia.
Winchester Apple Blossom Parade (May 1957)Patsy has been in numberous books including:Patsy Cline, Singing Girl from the Shenandoah Valley Of all the Patsy Cline books written, This one ranks high.
There are photos never been seen, plus excerpts from Patsy's letters.
The author gives you a good sense of who Patsy was and where she came from
without all the tabloid-like writings of other books like this one.
If you are a true Patsy fan, you will really enjoy the quotes and anectdotes
from friends and family that knew the real Patsy Cline...
who comes shining brightly through in this great piece of writing.Other Books on Patsy
Patsy: The Life and Times of Patsy Cline
The Best of Patsy Cline
Love Always, Patsy: Patsy Cline's Letters to a Friend
The Real Patsy Cline
On the Road to Patsy Cline: Poems
I Fall to Pieces: The Music and the Life of Patsy Cline
Patsy Cline: An Intimate Biography
Honky Tonk Angel: The Intimate Story of Patsy Cline 
Patsy at Carnegie Hall (1961) -~-~-~-~-~-~- Patsy at the Grand Ole Opry (1962)
her right ear when she reached for the high notes, apologizing to the audience for not being at the top of her form (she was suffering from fatigue and the flu). Dottie West, who was there, and shared a dressing room with Patsy said later, that Patsy was genuinely moved by the standing ovation and told the crowd, "I love you all."
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