Peggy Sue Wright (née Webb; born March 25, 1943) is a country music singer and songwriter, who had brief success as a country singer in the late 1960s. She is the middle sister of two popular country performers, Loretta Lynn and Crystal Gayle. Her older brother Willie "Jay" Lee Webb was a country music singer/songwriter in the 1960s.
Biography
Peggy Sue Wright was born Peggy Sue Webb in a cabin in Butcher Hollow, Kentucky, on March 25, 1943. She is the second daughter and the sixth child born to Clara Marie "Clary" (née Ramey; May 5, 1912 – November 24, 1981) and Melvin Theodore "Ted" Webb (June 6, 1906 – February 22, 1959). Webb was a coal miner and subsistence farmer.
The family was poor; living hand-to-mouth and relying on her father's meager income. Wright had five older siblings: Melvin "Junior" Webb (1929–1993), Loretta Lynn (April 14, 1932 – October 4, 2022), Herman Webb (1934–2018), Willie "Jay" Lee Webb (February 12, 1937 – July 31, 1996), and Donald Ray Webb (1941–2017). Her two younger sisters are Betty Ruth Hopkins (née Webb; born 1946), and Crystal Gayle (born Brenda Gail Webb; January 9, 1951).
The family moved to Wabash, Indiana, in 1955 due to her father's illness from working in the coal mines; he would die in 1959 of black lung disease.
