The Life and Sad Ending of Kitty Wells

The Life and Sad Ending of Kitty Wells
Kitty Wells was born on August 30, 1919, was born Ellen Muriel Deason on 30 August 1919, one of six siblings, to Charles Cary Deason and his wife, Myrtle, in Nashville, Tennessee. She is one of the few well-known country performers to have been born in Nashville.
Wells began singing as a child, learning guitar from her father, who was a brakeman on the Tennessee Central Railroad. Her father, Charles, and his brother were musicians, and her mother, Myrtle, was a gospel singer. As a teenager, Wells sang with her sisters, who performed under the name the Deason Sisters, on a local radio station beginning in 1936. At the age of 18 Wells married Johnnie Wright, a cabinetmaker who aspired to country music stardom which he would eventually achieve as half of the duo, Johnnie & Jack. She was widowed 33 days before their 74th wedding anniversary when Johnnie died in 2011, aged 97. Kitty and Johnnie had three children, Ruby, Bobby, and Carol Sue, eight grandchildren, 12 great-grandchildren, and seven great-great-grandchildren.
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