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Article: Crazy About Winchester; For Patsy Cline fans and Civil War buffs, this small Virginia town strikes a chord.
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- The Washington Post
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- October 14, 1998
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You could lose a whole day in Winchester, Va., looking for Patsy
Cline's grave marker. Unlike Jim Morrison in Paris or Elvis in
Memphis, Patsy's burial ground is no shrine. No graffiti, no eternal
flames. No lines of weeping tourists. Her stone is as flat as all
the others at Shenandoah Memorial Park, engraved simply with her
husband's family name, Dick.
As I peered closer I found her name, Virginia Patterson Hensley,
and below that, in parentheses and smaller type, almost as an
afterthought, Patsy Cline. Two fresh, muddy graves nearby tell you
this is a working cemetery, and as I stood there among the dead in