" Dear Patsy" " If Only I Had Known You "

Book excerpt: This Book and Story is " Dedicated " " To The Great Patsy Cline and my Mother "Lue Grey (Shifflett ) Mau." The Greatest Women to so many in the Music World. On March 5 th,1963 the world lost a most valuable women. The woman was my Cousin The Great Patsy Cline. A woman who brought so much to the music empire. Her voice the sounds of a true rich songbird. A Pioneer of a woman who made her mark and stamped her arts for all the world Many still listen to her great works today . Many still mourn this Great Artist. I as a Shifflett Cousin wish so much had been so different on that fatal day of her crash. Nashville still mourns her and so do all her many friends . "God Bless you my Cousin" I know you sing for all yet in the kingdom above. You and your music will forever continue on. "Always" Melanie Marie Shifflett Ridner