Honky Tonk Angel (51 page)

Another milestone: Patsy Cline becomes the first solo female named to the Country Music Hall of Fame. Johnny Cash makes the announcement on the 1973 Country Music Awards on CBS TV. (WSM Photo/Les Leverell)

Hilda Hensley, Patsy’s mother. in 1985 with one of the Western costumes she made for her daughter. The bronze plaque she had made for the fool of Patsy’s grave reads, “Death cannot kill what never dies.”

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Photo by Stanley Trelliek © 1985: Licensed by Ellis NassourUsed with permission)