Editing Patsy Cline (section)

==Death==
{{Main|1963 Camden PA-24 crash}}

[[File:Patsy Cline Memorial Camden TN 09.jpg|thumb|left|Patsy Cline aircraft crash site, Camden, Tennessee]]

On March 3, 1963, Cline performed a benefit at the [[Memorial Hall (Kansas City, Kansas)|Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Hall]], [[Kansas City, Kansas]], for the family of disc jockey "Cactus" Jack Call; he had died in an automobile crash a little over a month earlier. Also performing in the show were [[George Jones]], George Riddle and The Jones Boys, [[Billy Walker (musician)|Billy Walker]], Dottie West, [[Wilma Lee Cooper|Wilma Lee]] and [[Stoney Cooper]], George McCormick, the [[Ralph Stanley|Clinch Mountain Boys]], [[Cowboy Copas]], and [[Hawkshaw Hawkins]]. Despite having a cold, Cline performed at 2:00, 5:15, and 8:15 pm. All the shows were standing-room only. For the 2:00 pm show, she wore a sky-blue tulle-laden dress; for the 5:15 show, a red dress; and for the closing show at 8:00, Cline wore white chiffon. Her final song was the last she had recorded the previous month, "I'll Sail My Ship Alone".{{sfn|Nassour, Ellis|1993|pp=218–221}}

Cline, who had spent the night at the [[Cross Lines Tower|Town House Motor Hotel]], was unable to fly out the day after the concert because [[Fairfax Airport]] was fogged in. West asked Patsy to ride in the car with her husband, Bill, and her back to Nashville, an 8-hour drive, but Cline refused, saying: "Don't worry about me, Hoss. When it's my time to go, it's my time."  On March 5, she called her mother from the motel and checked out at 12:30&nbsp;pm, going the short distance to the airport and boarding a [[Piper PA-24 Comanche]] plane, [[aircraft registration|aircraft registration number]] N7000P. On board were Cline, Copas, Hawkins, and pilot Randy Hughes.

The plane stopped once in [[Rogers, Arkansas]], to refuel and subsequently landed at [[Dyersburg Regional Airport|Dyersburg Municipal Airport]] in [[Dyersburg, Tennessee]], at 5 pm.{{sfn|Nassour, Ellis|1993|pp=222–226}} Hawkins had accepted Billy Walker's place after Walker left on a commercial flight to take care of a stricken family member. The Dyersburg, Tennessee, airfield manager suggested they stay the night because of high winds and inclement weather, offering them free rooms and meals, but Hughes, who was not trained in instrument flying, said, "I've already come this far. We'll be there before you know it." The plane took off at 6:07&nbsp;pm.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://members.boardhost.com/patsyclinemusic/msg/1362527954.html |title=What really happened in the Patsy Cline plane crash |author=Larry Jordan |publisher=boardhost.com |access-date=June 19, 2015}}</ref>

Cline's flight, however, crashed in heavy weather on the evening of March 5, 1963. Her recovered wristwatch had stopped at 6:20&nbsp;pm. The plane was found some {{convert|90|mi|km}} from its Nashville destination, in a forest outside of [[Camden, Tennessee]]. Forensic examination concluded that everyone aboard had been killed instantly.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Artist Biography - Patsy Cline|url=http://www.countrypolitan.com/bio-patsy-cline.php/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140103065357/http://www.countrypolitan.com/bio-patsy-cline.php/|archive-date=January 3, 2014|url-status=dead|author=Sherry Anderson|work=Countrypolitan.com |date=January 2001}}</ref><ref name=bard.org>{{cite web|title=Knowing of Your Own Death|url=http://bard.org/education/studyguides/Always/patsyknowing.html|work=bard.org|publisher=Utah Shakespeare Festival|access-date=April 26, 2012|archive-date=May 25, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120525144253/http://bard.org/education/studyguides/Always/patsyknowing.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> Until the wreckage was discovered the following dawn and reported on the radio, friends and family had not given up hope. Endless calls tied up the local telephone exchanges to such a degree that other emergency calls had trouble getting through. The lights at the aircraft's destination, [[Cornelia Fort Airpark]], were kept on throughout the night, as reports of the missing plane were broadcast on radio and TV.

[[File:The grave of Patsy Cline, B - Stierch.jpg|thumb|right|The grave of Patsy Cline]] 
Early in the morning, Roger Miller and a friend went searching for survivors: "As fast as I could, I ran through the woods screaming their names—through the brush and the trees—and I came up over this little rise, oh, my God, there they were. It was ghastly. The plane had crashed nose down."<ref>Ellis Nassour's "Patsy Cline" and "Honky Tonk Angel" from exclusive 1979 and 1980 interviews with Miller</ref> Shortly after the bodies were removed, looters scavenged the area. Some recovered items were eventually donated to the [[Country Music Hall of Fame]]. Cline's wristwatch, a [[Confederate flag]] cigarette lighter, a studded belt, and three pairs of gold lamé slippers were among them. Cline's payment in cash from the last performance was never recovered.<ref name=bard.org /> Per her wishes, Cline's body was brought home first for her memorial service, which thousands attended. People jammed against the small tent over her gold casket and the grave to take all the flowers they could reach as keepsakes.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/magazine/1985/09/29/sweet-dreams/7eb27412-edbb-42fd-b117-7c3c5dd15655/|title=The Washington Post|last=McGhee|first=Dorothy|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|date=September 29, 1985}}</ref> She was buried at Shenandoah Memorial Park in her hometown of Winchester, Virginia. Her grave is marked with a bronze plaque, which reads: "Virginia H. Dick ('Patsy Cline' is noted under her name) 'Death Cannot Kill What Never Dies: Love'."  A memorial marks the exact place off Mt. Carmel Road in Camden, Tennessee, where the plane crashed.{{sfn|Nassour, Ellis|1993|p=248}}