Charlie Dick was a Linotype operator at The Winchester Star when they first met in 1956. “I started going to dances,” Charlie Dick told PBS. “And I started going to the one in Maryville, Virginia … where this group called the Kountry Krackers were playing and we went there for a real long time before I ever seen Patsy … She came in there and started working for [the band] on Friday nights.” The two of them had similar backgrounds — they grew up relatively impoverished without fathers and left school before graduating. They also loved to have fun. “We were out to have a good time with life,” Dick told The Los Angeles Times in 1985.
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Cline was married at the time. The following year, after she’d left her first husband, Gerald Cline, she and Dick began dating and married on September 15, 1957, per The Los Angeles Times. “Charlie was a ladies’ man, but he was crazy about Patsy,” her friend and fellow country star Loretta Lynn recalled in her book, “Me & Patsy Kickin’ Up Dust: My Friendship with Patsy Cline.” “He’d been courting her for years. They were wild for each other.”
