The origin story for ‘Jolene’? Dolly Parton’s husband and another woman’s ‘terrible crush’

“Carl and I spent many wonderful years. Words we cannot do justice for the love we share for more than 60 years. The 10 -time Grammy winner wrote, “Thank you for your prayers and sympathy, when her husband died in Nashvil and” will be rested at a private ceremony. ” Dean, who works in the asphalt industry, met Parton in Londromate in 1964. Two years later got married in Georgia when they were in their early 20s. When the party enjoyed immense fame during his career, Dean was often not seen, left with people’s eyes.

“He went on one thing with me at the beginning, when we first married, with the BMI song of the year,” she Apple Pal’s “Do Olly Lee? Radio” In 2023. “And he came out, he took his tuxedo, his tie and all of them and said, ‘Never tell me to go to other things, because I don’t go.’ So I never asked, and he never did.

The couple had never had children, and has talked about how much Parton means in her life.

“I think I love a lot, but Carl is my best and standing,” she Woman said world At an interview in January. “He was the one that lasted for 60 years.”