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Jean Dee Ritchie Jean Dee Ritchie, an 11 year resident of Hemet, passed away peacefully on Friday, December 20, 2013 in Torrance at the age of 74. She passed away surrounded by her children and in ...

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NEW YORK (AP) — Jean Ritchie, the Kentucky-born folksinger who brought the centuries-old ballads she grew up with to a wide audience from the 1950s onward, died Monday evening. She was 92. Ritchie ...

The Ritchies were one of the great folk song families of the Appalachians. They favored ballads and Jean Ritchie became a master, preferring to... Jean Ritchie, Singer Known As 'The Mother Of Folk,' ...

Jean “Lorraine” Ritchie, 72, of Frystown, died Wednesday, April 2nd, 2014 at the Hershey Medical Center. She was the wife of Thomas M. Ritchie. Born in Lebanon County, she was the daughter of the late ...