Miggie Lewis
Nannie Omega "Miggie" Lewis (May 22, 1926 – December 26, 2017) was a singer with the Lewis Family, the bluegrass gospel group from Lincolnton, Georgia, that was billed as "the First Family of Bluegrass Gospel." Born in Augusta, Georgia, she was the eldest child of Roy "Pop" Lewis and Pauline Holloway Lewis. She sang with her parents, her sisters Polly and Janis, and her brothers Wallace, Talmadge, and "Little Roy." The Lewis Family took its name and made its first recording in 1951. From 1954 to 1992 the group hosted a weekly television program on WJBF-TV in Augusta, and it began recording for Starday in 1957. It toured the United States and Canada and performed at the Smithsonian Institution and Lincoln Center. The Lewis Family entered the Georgia Music Hall of Fame in 1992 and IBMA's Hall of Honor in 2006, and it won several Dove Awards. The family retired in 2009. She died in Augusta in 2017, at age 91.