"But in 1962, while recording “Sweet Dreams,” Cline cried at the microphone. Perhaps her emotion reflected a sense of impending doom. Cline began giving personal items away and wrote her last will and testament. She also asked close friends to care for her children if anything happened to her. On March 3, 1963, she gave a brilliant performance at a benefit concert in Kansas City, Kansas. Afterward, Cline’s close friend, Dottie West, pleaded with her to ride home with her and her husband Bill. Anxious to see her children, Cline told West, “Don’t worry about me, Hoss ( a name she used for close friends). When it’s my time to go, it’s my time.”
After calling her mother, Cline boarded a Piper Comanche for Nashville flown by her manager Randy Hughes. “Cowboy” Copas and “Hawkshaw” Hawkins joined them. They stopped in Dyersburg, Tennessee to refuel and the airport manager suggested they spend the night because of high winds and inclement weather ahead. Hughes replied, “I’ve already come this far. We’ll be there before you know it.”
Hughes and his passengers left Dyersburg at 6:07 p.m. and crashed, according to Cline’s wristwatch, at 6:20 p.m. just outside Camden, Tennessee. Nobody survived.
At just 30, they laid Patsy Cline to rest in Sheandoah Memorial Park in Winchester."
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