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Artists Celebrities Country Artists. Gangsters Politicians Sports Figures. She was the youngest of the five daughters of a prosperous lumberman in Centerville. After graduation she taught dance for several years.

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Her first professional theatrical job was with the Wayne P. Sewell Production Company, a touring theater company based in Atlanta, for which she produced and directed plays and musicals for local organizations in small towns throughout the southeastern United States. She developed her Minnie Pearl routine during this period. The now famous hat was purchased downtown at Surasky Bros.

Department store prior to the show. The success of her debut on the show began an association with the Grand Ole Opry that continued for more than 50 years. She often danced with Grandpa Jones. Those who knew her recognized that the characters were largely based on real residents of Centerville. After the marriage, Henry Cannon set up his own air charter service for country music performers and took over management of the Minnie Pearl character.

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The couple had no children. Cannon attended Brentwood Methodist Church, just to the south of Nashville where she also donated the organ. In the late s Nashville entrepreneur John Jay Hooker persuaded Cannon and gospel singer Mahalia Jackson to lend their names to a chain of fried chicken restaurants established to compete with Kentucky Fried Chicken.