In 1942, Virginia Wynette Pugh, the lone child of Mildred Faye and William Hollice Pugh, was born in Mississippi. When Wynette was just a few months old, her father tragically passed away from a brain tumor.
After World War II, her mother relocated to Memphis, Tennessee, to work at a defense facility, leaving her daughter in the care of her grandparents. Then Wynette was reared by her aunt, who was just five years her senior, a self-taught musician who worked as a crop picker as a young child harvesting cotton in the Mississippi fields.
She grew raised without indoor plumbing or running water. Several musical instruments that belonged to Wynette’s father before his passing was learned to play by Wynette on her own.
What was Tammy Wynette’s net worth at the time of death?
At the time of her passing, Tammy Wynette, an American country music artist, had a net worth of $900,000. She is most famous for her popular song “Stand by Your Man,” undoubtedly.
Up until the end of the 1970s, all but three of Wynette’s songs would chart in the top ten. Take Me to Your World, D-I-V-O-R-C-E, Stand By Your Man, Singing My Song, and “The Ways to Love a Man” are a few of her songs that reached the top spot.
Wynette is regarded historically as a pioneer for the ladies in the genre at that time. She was dubbed the “First Lady of Country Music” and is known as such today.
