Tammy Wynette (b. Virginia Wynette Pugh, Tupelo, MS, May 5, 1942; d. April 6, 1998) was one of the most successful country singers of all time and dominated the charts from 1967 to 1976. She had twenty No. 1 country hits and co-wrote many of them, including her 1968 anthem "Stand By Your Man." Wynette married country star George Jones in 1968, and they toured together until their divorce in 1975. Wynette never forgot her roots as a poor, rural girl from Mississippi; until the day she died, she kept her beautician's license in case her singing career ended.
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