Anita Mathis (née Sorrells/Wheeler)
Anita Sorrells Wheeler Mathis (February 6, 1905 – January 18, 1998) was a fiddler from Atlanta, Georgia. She won the state championship at the Georgia Old-Time Fiddlers' Convention in 1931 and again in 1934. She was the only woman to win it during the conventions' peak years. She played on Atlanta radio station WSB with the Dixie String Band and performed in the 1930s with the Oklahoma Cowgirls and the Tennessee Firecrackers. She was married to musician Bob Mathis. She was inducted into the Atlanta Country Music Hall of Fame in 1982.
In the newsletter
- No. 14 Winter 1998