"Crazy" for Patsy Cline
Only die-hard country music fans know a Winchester native named Virginia Hensley by her real name, for it was as Patsy Cline that she sang "Walkin' After Midnight" on the nationally televised Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts in the 1950s. The record of that song sold a million copies. Other tunes like "Crazy," "Leavin' on Your Mind," and "Imagine That" will forever be linked to Patsy Cline.
She was only 30 years old when she, Hawkshaw Hawkins, and Cowboy Copas died in a plane crash in March 1963. Her body was brought home and buried in Shenandoah Memorial Park, 3 miles south of town on U.S. 522.
The Winchester/Frederick County Visitors Center has a Patsy Cline Corner that includes her very own jukebox. Pick up a brochure that points the way to her home, Gaunt's Drug Store where she worked, the high school she attended, GNM Music where she cut her first record, the house where she married second husband Charlie Dick, and her grave.
