Kitty Wells: Pop's Country Godmother

Pioneering female country singer Kitty Wells died today at her home in Madison, Tennessee, due to complications from a stroke, her grandson John Sturd.

When Kitty Wells died Monday at the age of 92, country music lost one of its few remaining stars from the midcentury golden age of honky-tonk. But the rest of us lost something even more significant: An architect of modern pop, one of the first female

Pioneering female country singer Kitty Wells died today at her home in Madison, Tennessee, due to complications from a stroke, her grandson John Sturd.

Kitty Wells no stranger to London. MY LONDON: Country music queen died Monday at age 92. By JAMES REANEY, The London Free Press. Last Updated: July 18, 2012 7:03pm. Story · Comments. Country music queen Kitty Wells left her mark in my London.

Before Loretta Lynn, Dolly Parton, Shania Twain or Taylor Swift, there was Kitty Wells, the original "Queen of Country Music." Wells, who died at her Nashville-area home Monday morning at the age of 92, enjoyed a career that ran the gamut — from 78