Carl and I spent many wonderful years together. Words can’t do justice to the love we shared for over 60 years,” Parton wrote in a statement. A devoted husband, Dean was a ...

and Robert Lee Parton Sr (1921 – 2000). Her father was a subsistence farmer and construction worker, and her mother was a homemaker for their large family. Her 11 pregnancies between 1939 and 1959 ...

and tying the knot May 30, 1966, with only mother-of-the-bride Avie Lee Parton by their side (and serving as their wedding photographer). They kept it so quiet, Foster didn't even know they were ...

Their mother Avie Lee often struggled with her mental health and their father Robert Lee Parton was a drinker, meaning Dolly and her siblings Stella and 'second mother' Willadeene were forced to ...

The Parton family, raised by Robert and Avie Lee Parton, grew up in the Appalachia region of Tennessee, according to the Country Music Hall of Fame. Over the years, Dolly Parton hasn't shied away ...

Under 16 tons of granite, a farmer sleeps with a mystery at one of the most grandiose burial monuments in rural America.

According to Parton’s website, the only people to attend the small service were Dolly’s mother, Avie Lee Parton, a preacher and his wife. The couple had met two years earlier when Parton was ...

They married just two years later, with only her late mother, Avie Lee Parton, and the preacher and his wife, by their sides. She made her first big career move in 1967, when she joined The Porter ...

Carl Dean, the longtime husband of Dolly Parton, is dead at 82 years old. He died on March 3 in Nashville and a cause of death has not been revealed. Parton announced the news on social media ...

Parton’s perfect day in Dollywood includes family and friends and food - but not the roller coasters. Parton says innovation and Southern hospitality are instrumental to Dollywood’s next 40 years.

They married two years later on Memorial Day in Ringgold, Georgia, in a private ceremony with just Parton’s mother, Avie Lee Parton, the preacher and his wife attending. Parton was 20 ...