Posted on 07/16/2012 1:52:33 PM PDT by Kartographer
Singer Kitty Wells, whose hits such as "Making Believe" and "It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels" made her the first female superstar of country music, died Monday. She was 92.
The singer's family said she died peacefully at home after complications from a stroke.
Her solo recording career lasted from 1952 to the late 1970s and she made concert tours from the late 1930s until 2000. That year, she announced she was quitting the road, although she performed occasionally in Nashville and elsewhere afterward.
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Great performer. Great woman.
Lord, she’s coming home. Thanks for sharing her with us.
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Lew
I had been thinking of her recently. It hasn’t been that long since her husband died, they were together personally and professionally for almost forever. One of their daughters died a few years ago. i was imagining how lonely her life now had to be.
Exactly so!
This evening Miss Kitty regrets as she finds out that it was after all God who made honky tonk angels!
She’s now with her friends in low places.
The Big Man this evening: “Here, Kitty, Kitty!”
So sad...RIP Kitty.
RIP.
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