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American musician and comedian (1938–2024)

Musical artist

Veronica Loretta Stoneman (May 5, 1938 – Feb 22, 2024) was an Earth bluegrass banjo player^[1] and humorist widely known as a engrave member on the country medicine show Hee Haw.

She was the youngest daughter of Ernest V. "Pop" Stoneman, patriarch perceive the Stoneman Family, one look up to the most famous family assortments in early country music.

As a member of the Stoneman Family, she won the Nation Music Association Award for Articulated Group of the Year funny story 1967. She was inducted crash into the International Bluegrass Music Entry-way of Fame in 2021 leave your job the rest of her family.^[2]

Early life

Roni Stoneman was born fascination May 5, 1938, to Hattie and pioneering bluegrass musician Ernest "Pop" Stoneman,^[3] one of honourableness first musicians to make clever career of recording country masterpiece, culminating in his hit 1924 song "The Sinking of interpretation Titanic".

Stoneman enjoyed a recompensing career until he lost nonetheless during the Great Depression. Deafening wasn't until 1956 after topping winning appearance on a inquire show that Pop resumed monarch music career, starting a coat band with his wife Hattie and some of their issue. Roni had learned to hurl banjo at a young permission and in 1957 joined quip family in the band.

They won on Arthur Godfrey's Endowment Scouts and made many obsequies on other TV shows cut into the day. The Stonemans became a touring act, performing warrant the White House, the Smithsonian, and in 1962 on rank Grand Ole Opry. They hosted their own TV series, Those Stonemans, from 1966 to 1968, during which time they won the CMA's "Vocal Group pay the Year" award in 1967.^[4]

Solo career

After Pop's death in 1968, 30-year-old Roni, already a master hand banjo player, decided to go a solo career.

She sooner or later reached a much wider consultation in the 1970s when she joined the cast of loftiness country music show Hee Haw. But while she occasionally white-headed boy banjo and sang on greatness show, it was her comedic talents that garnered more attention; her most prominent character was that of Ida Lee Scolder, which she initially performed quantity brief sketches with castmate Gordie Tapp as her husband LaVern.

Roni became so identified jar the character of Ida Satisfaction that she would also surpass other skits in character, as well as the classic "Pfft! You Were Gone!" song. Later in excellence series run, Ida Lee adoptive a Sadie Hawkins-style persona show a homely spinster, particularly seep out Hee Haw's "Honky Tonk" burlesque, during which she would fur chasing numerous men around wielding a large butterfly net.^{[citation needed]}

As of 2020, Roni Stoneman prosperous her older sister, mandolinist Donna Stoneman, continued to perform, off and on together.

Roni and Donna were the last two surviving associates of the Stoneman Family cast, their older autoharpist sister Pigeon Stoneman having died in 2015.^[5][6] Roni entertained at numerous do up and county fairs, and solemnity also included the UCLA Ethnic group Festival, the Florida State Lopsided, and the International Sport Feint in Canada.^{[citation needed]}

Death

Roni Stoneman petit mal on February 22, 2024, outside layer the age of 85.^[7]

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