A post shared by Loretta Lynn (@lorettalynnofficial) Betty Sue died in 2013 at 64 years old from complications of emphysema. She also had a second daughter named Audrey Dyer. Sadly, she is not the only of Lynn's kids who preceded her in death: Oldest son Jack died in 1984. He drowne...
However, the singer would have to grapple with personal tragedy during this time when her 34-year-old son, Jack Benny, drowned after trying to wade across a river on horseback. Lynn herself was hospitalized briefly for exhaustion before learning of her son’s death. Inducted into the Country...
Reba McEntire wasamong the stars who reactedto Lynn’s death,posting onlineabout how the singer reminded her of her late mother. “Strong women, who loved their children and were fiercely loyal. Now they’re both in Heaven getting to visit and talk about how they were raised, how different...
The legendary Patsy Cline took Lynn under her wing, and her protégée was hit hard by her sudden death in a plane crash in 1963. Cline left such an impression on Lynn that she named one of her twins, born in 1964, after her. As a vocalist, Lynn may have carr...
While many will miss Loretta Lynn's music and legacy, Dolly Parton will miss the person — someone who has been like family to her from the beginning.
She was lying on her death bed knowing fully well her race was nearly runByt she softly smiled and looked into the sad eyes of her husband and her sonAnd I said so long country bumpkins the frost is gone now from the pumpkinsI've seem some sights and life's been somethin' see you ...
“I was 16 or 17, somewhere in that age, and I was scared to death,” says Gayle, now 68. “I still have the dress that I wore. Mom made it for me, a little silver dress.” In this article: Crystal Gayle, Loretta Lynn
Death Details August 12, 2000 Los Angeles, CaliforniaFamous WorksCredits; STAGE APPEARANCES An Evening with Loretta Young, American Museum of Broadcasting TelevisionFestival, New York City, then Los Angeles, County Museum of Art, Leo Bing Theatre, Los Angeles, both 1989. Credits; FILM APPEARANCES...
Lynn was devastated by her death. Fourteen years later Lynn recorded one of her most successful albums, "I Remember Patsy" featuring Cline remakes; two of the songs from the album became Top Ten hits for Lynn as they had been for Cline 15 years earlier. She also collaborated ma...
performed his own song about the here-after, "Where Her Heart Has Always Been," which he wrote in tribute to his late mother and her own eternal love for his father. Lynn, of course, was married to her childhood sweetheart,Oliver "Doolittle" Lynn, for 48 years before his death in 1996...