No cause of death was released, Variety reported. Roni Stoneman was born Veronica Loretta “Roni” Stoneman, according to Billboard. She was known as “The First Lady of Banjo,” according to a statement ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Roni Stoneman, a virtuoso banjo player, mainstay of the country music television show “Hee Haw” and one of the last surviving members of the Stoneman Family, a renowned Appalachian ...

Roni Stoneman, the “first lady of the banjo,” who picked her way into bluegrass and country music history as a member of the Stoneman Family band and found wider fame as an irascible performer on “Hee ...

The last time I talked with Roni Stoneman, she was fired up about a show she had played with her sister Donna. In their 80s and game as ever, the Stoneman sisters still performed together like they ...

Roni Stoneman, banjo player and beloved "Hee Haw" star has died at the age of 85. Born in 1938 to Ernest V. "Pop" and Hattie Stoneman, Roni was the second-youngest of her father's 23 children. She ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV/Gray News) – Roni Stoneman, a country music legend known as “The First Lady of the Banjo,” has died at the age of 85. Stoneman is also known for her role on the TV series “Hee ...