For the next 19 years, Roni Stoneman was Ida Lee Nagger, the ironing board lady with the wide gap between her front teeth, a battered old housecoat and wig with rags tied to it, perpetually ...

Roni Stoneman, bluegrass’s ‘first lady of the banjo,’ dies at 85. ... “Did you hear the one about the girl that had Texas teeth? She had lots of wideeee open spaces. ...

Roni Stoneman, a country musician who was known as “first lady of the banjo,” and was seen by millions as a familiar face on television’s “Hee Haw,” has died.She was 85.

Roni Stoneman, a country musician who was known as “first lady of the banjo,” and was seen by millions as a familiar face on television’s “Hee Haw,” has died. She was 85.

Roni Stoneman, who was part of the long-running television show, “Hee Haw,” died Thursday. She was 85. >> Read more trending news. No cause of death was released, Variety reported.

Roni Stoneman, the country star known as the “first lady of the banjo,” died Thursday. The “Hee Haw” star was 85. No cause of death was given. “For Roni Stoneman, known as ‘The First ...

Veronica Loretta “Roni” Stoneman, an award-winning bluegrass singer and comedienne known for her role on a country music show has died. She was 85 years old.

Finals at Banjo Contest with Roni Stoneman, Sunset Park, PA, 1963. Photo by Leon Kagarise. Roni had told me stories about her brother’s intensity and feral energy onstage that echoed what I had heard ...

Roni Stoneman, banjo player and beloved "Hee Haw" star has died at the age of 85. Born in 1938 to Ernest V. "Pop" and Hattie Stoneman, Roni was the second-youngest of her father's 23 children.

In 2007, Ms. Stoneman published “Pressing On: The Roni Stoneman Story,” an account, as told to Ellen Wright, of how she overcame poverty and abusive husbands to become country music’s ...

Roni Stoneman, who was part of the long-running television show, “Hee Haw,” died Thursday. She was 85. >> Read more trending news. No cause of death was released, Variety reported.