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Rose Lee Maphis, ‘Mrs. Country Music,’ dies at 98 | Local News
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…