[Updated]: LifeNotes: Charlie Dick, Patsy Cline’s Widower, Dies

[Updated, Nov. 10, 5:21 p.m.]: Funeral and visitation arrangements have been made for Charlie Dick.

Visitation will take place on Wednesday, Nov. 11 from 4 p.m. – 7:30 p.m., at Anderson & Garrett Funeral Home, and again on Thursday, Nov. 12 from 10 a.m. until the time of service at 11 o’clock, at First Baptist Church Joelton.

Additional visitation and services are being planned in his hometown of Winchester, VA., and those arrangements will be handled by Jones Funeral Home. 
In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to R.O.P.E.

[Original, Nov. 9, 2015 at 11:13 a.m.]:

Charlie Dick, widower of country legend Patsy Cline, died Sunday, Nov. 8. He was 81.

The two wed in 1957, and were together until Cline’s death in an airplane crash in 1963. After Cline’s death, Dick worked at labels including Starday Records and MCA Records throughout the 1960s and 1970s. He was often involved in handling reissues and compilations of Cline’s music.

HBO Pictures produced Sweet Dreams in 1985, with Jessica Lange in the role of Patsy Cline and Ed Harris in the role of Charlie Dick. Charlie Dick disagreed with how the couple’s marriage was portrayed in Sweet Dreams, and began a campaign to set the record straight. He partnered with Hallway Productions to produce a pair of documentaries on Cline’s life: The Real Patsy Cline and Remembering Patsy. He became more involved with Hallway Productions during the 1990s, helping create similar documentaries about Willie Nelson and Ernest Tubb. In 1997, he aided in the release of Patsy Cline: Live at the Cimarron Ballroom, recorded at a concert from July 1961 in Tulsa, Okla.

Most recently, Dick helped approve the deal for a partnership between the Estate of Patsy Cline and Hologram USA to develop a hologram of Patsy Cline, using HUSA’s technology. The Patsy Cline hologram will be the center of a full concert experience, set to launch in 2016.

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