Connie Smith

==Personal life==
[[File:Connie Smith--Marshall Haynes.jpg|thumb|right|150px|Connie Smith on the day of her wedding to third husband, Marshall Haynes, 1972.]]
Smith has been married four times. In 1961, she married Jerry Smith, a ferro-analyst at the Inter-Lake Iron Corporation in Beverly, Ohio. They had one child together, born on 9 March 1963, named Darren Justin. (In the late 1970s, Darren went to Europe to become a missionary; he is currently a psychologist.)<ref name="interview"/><ref>{{cite web|last=Larken |first=Collin |title=Connie Smith Biography|url=http://www.oldies.com/artist-biography/Connie-Smith.html |website=Oldies.com|access-date=August 16, 2010}}</ref> In the mid-1960s, the couple divorced and Smith married the guitarist in her touring band, Jack Watkins. They had a son before separating nearly a year after marrying. Shortly afterward, Smith married telephone repairman Marshall Haynes. In the early 1970s, Haynes frequently toured with Connie on her road show. The couple had three daughters.{{sfn|Escott|2001|p=28}}

After divorcing Haynes in the early 1990s, Smith stated that she never would marry again.<ref name="interview"/> However, on 8 July 1997, she married for the fourth time, this time to her producer, country artist [[Marty Stuart]]. Stuart began producing her after writing songs for Smith's 1998 [[Connie Smith (1998 album)|comeback album]]. Stuart described encountering Smith 26 years earlier, after attending her concert: "I met Connie when I was 12 years old. She came to the Indian reservation in my hometown of Philadelphia, Mississippi to work at a fair. She hasn't changed a bit. She looked great then and she looks great now."<ref>{{cite web|title=Spirits Of Marty Stuart And Connie Smith Finally Unite (first appeared in a printing of ''Country Weekly'' in 1997) |url=http://www.martystuart.com/zart-cw-8-12-97.htm|publisher=Marty Stuart.com|access-date=August 16, 2010}}</ref> Stuart said he told his mother then that he was going to marry Connie Smith. Smith explains how they have sustained their marriage : "Make the Lord the center...and commit."<ref>{{cite web |last=Gallagher|first=Pat|title=Connie Smith and Marty Stuart Offer Marriage Tips|url=http://www.theboot.com/2010/07/08/connie-smith-marty-stuart |publisher=The Boot|website=TheBoot.com|date=July 8, 2010|access-date=August 16, 2010}}</ref>

Smith revealed in a ''New York Times'' interview that she had been diagnosed with [[COVID-19]] in February 2021. She was hospitalized, developing [[sepsis]] and pneumonia. She eventually made a full recovery.<ref name="NY Times"/> "They asked me if my heart stopped, did I want to be revived, and I said 'Of course, I don't want to be a COVID statistic,'" she told the ''Nashville Scene''.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Himes |first1=Geoffrey |title=Connie Smith and Marty Stuart Apply Natural Grace on The Cry of the Heart |journal=Nashville Scene |date=August 19, 2021 |url=https://www.nashvillescene.com/music/features/connie-smith-and-marty-stuart-apply-natural-grace-on-i-the-cry-of-the-heart/article_af8fe412-ff8c-11eb-a611-570a7e4bc6ac.html |access-date=24 February 2022}}</ref>
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