MERIDIAN, Miss. (AP) - Fans and family of country music star Jimmie Rodgers came together to honor his memory with a wreath-laying at his gravesite in Meridian.
Rodgers’s great-granddaughter Dixie Haslett laid the wreath Saturday morning.
The wreath-laying tradition started in 1953 when the Jimmie Rodgers festival first began.
WTOK-TV reports that the festival is traditionally held on Rodgers’s death date, May 26. But this year, the foundation rescheduled the event so more of his family could take part.
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Information from: WTOK-TV, https://www.wtok.com
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