Dolly Parton’s husband is dead, husband to Carl Dean, Who Inspired ‘Jolene,’ Dies at 82.
Carl Dean, husband of country music legend Dolly Parton, passed away on Monday at the age of 82.
The couple shared nearly 60 years of marriage, though Parton largely kept their relationship out of the public eye.
“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 post on X.
Dolly met Dean in 1964 outside the Wishy Washy Laundromat in Nashville, Tennessee. At the time, she was 18 and he was 21.
“I was surprised and delighted that while he talked to me, he looked at my face (a rare thing for me),” she said.
“He seemed to be genuinely interested in finding out who I was and what I was about,” she added.
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