June carter funeral service

Editor's note: Sixteen years ago on Sept. Cash's frailties of body and heart made him seem no less indomitable. Fans and fellow musicians likened him to a force of nature: an iconic, elemental figure, more granite and fire than flesh and blood. He had cheated death enough that it seemed death would never catch onto the ruse. But yesterday morning around 2 a.

The two-hour ceremony was by turns solemn and cheerful and laced throughout with music. Cash, ailing for years and overwhelmed in his final days with complications from diabetes, died Friday at age 71, four months after his partner in music and life, June Carter Cash, died at Kris Kristofferson, like others, still looked shaken by the loss of his mentor and hero. Courtney Wilson.

But in addition to singing and song writing, she was also an author, dancer, actress, comedienne, philanthropist and humanitarian. The daughter of Ezra and Maybelle Carter, June was born into the first family of country music. She and her sisters, Helen and Anita, would perform as the Carter Sisters. After divorcing in , she went on to tour with Elvis Presley. It was during this period that she briefly married Edwin "Rip" Nix, a former football player, police officer, and race car driver, on November 11, , with whom she would give birth to another daughter, Rosanna Lea she would call Rosie, on July 13,

Prior to her marriage to Cash, she was professionally known as June Carter and occasionally was still credited as such after her marriage as well as on songwriting credits predating it. She played guitar, banjo , harmonica, and autoharp , and acted in several films and television shows. She was born into country music and performed with the Carter Family from the age of 10, beginning in June later said she had to work harder at her music than her sisters, but she had her own special talent—comedy.