CUMBERLAND, Md. — Western Maryland native Rose Lee Maphis, a region musician who, with her partner Joe, was a mainstay in the region audio market in the 1950s, died Oct. 26 at her residence in Nashville. She was 98.
Born Doris H. Schetrompf in 1922, Rose was the daughter of Stanley Lee Schetrompf Sr. and Margaret Helen Scriever of Apparent Spring. She took up tunes as a teen and became a proficient singer and guitarist.
Rose Lee Maphis performed with the Saddle Sweethearts, which incorporated sisters Mary and Dottie Klick and Betty Anne Gower. They commenced carrying out on the Old Dominion Barn Dance in 1948 broadcast from radio station WRVA in Richmond, Virginia. It was there that she 1st fulfilled Joe Maphis, a Cumberland indigenous who grew up on Virginia Avenue, attended Fort Hill Substantial University and performed in the local band The Rail Splitters.
Rose and Joe moved to Los Angeles and married in 1953 and signed with Columbia Documents. Along with Max Fidler, they penned the place hit “Dim Lights, Thick Smoke (And Loud, Loud Tunes),” which grew to become a common recorded by quite a few place stars, like Dwight Yoakam.
The Maphises executed commonly on tv and were a showcased act on “Town Hall Occasion,” broadcast from 1951 to 1961. They moved to Nashville in 1968 and grew to become acknowledged as “Mr. & Mrs. Place New music.”
The few experienced a few children, Jody, Lorrie and Dale.
Joe Maphis died in 1986 of lung cancer. Rose Lee Maphis’ past public visual appeal was in Cumberland on Aug. 7 at a 100th birthday celebration held for her late spouse at 1812 Brewery. It was the next time Joe Maphis experienced been honored in the city — the very first staying a tribute concert in 2016.
All through the August function, Rose Lee Maphis and her spouse and children were being proven a bench that was engraved with Joe Maphis’ title and involved a picture of the pair.
“It meant so a great deal to her what was taking place in Cumberland,” her son, Jody Maphis, said. “She really wished to see it finished. She was so honored by what was occurring.”
In accordance to Jody Maphis, his mother often campaigned to get her spouse the credit score she thought he deserved and numerous periods points fell by. A number of days prior to his mother died, Jody Maphis learned from regional advocates that the bench would be positioned on the concourse of the Western Maryland Railway Station with an unveiling planned for Nov. 10 at 2 p.m.
“I said to her, ‘Mama we bought excellent information from Cumberland,’ when she was likely to bed that night time,” Jody Maphis claimed. “The subsequent working day she mentioned in that mama tone, “Well, are you likely to tell me about Cumberland?
“I told her they had decided on a date and site for the bench at the teach station. She realized wherever the mule and boy statue was and I explained to her it was that area. She opened her eyes and said, ‘You must go to that.’ I advised her, ‘I will’ … she went back to slumber. I acquired a experience that was one of the factors she essential to go on.”
Joe and Rose Lee Maphis are buried in the Johnny Income and June Carter Income spouse and children plot in Hendersonville, Tennessee.
