Note: On Monday, November 23, 1992, Roy Acuff died at St. Thomas Midtown Hospital. The news devastated the country music world. ... He had a heart of gold and always treated us like his children." ...

Sarah Ophelia Colley Cannon–better known as Minnie Pearl–has been voted the 1987 Roy Acuff Community Service Award by trustees of the Country Music Foundation. Mrs. Cannon thus becomes the ...

A member of the family that donated Roy Acuff’s fiddle to a Goodwill store in Kansas City said it was done mistakenly and asked to have the fiddle returned. Goodwill complied.