Dolly Parton’s husband Carl Dean has died on the age of 82. The 2 have been married for almost 60 years.
No explanation for loss of life has been revealed, however a press release posted on Dolly’s Instagram web page reads, “Carl Dean, husband of Dolly Parton, handed away March third in Nashville on the age of 82. He shall be laid to relaxation in a personal ceremony with rapid household attending.”
Dolly herself added, “Carl and I spent many fantastic years collectively. Phrases can’t do justice to the love we shared for over 60 years. Thanks in your prayers and sympathy.”
Parton and Dean met at a laundromat in Nashville when the singer was simply 18 years previous. They married two years in a while Could thirtieth, 1966, in Ringgold, Georgia. A put up on Parton’s web site, shared on the event of their fiftieth wedding ceremony anniversary, tells the story of their relationship’s early days. “I used to be shocked and delighted that whereas he talked to me, he checked out my face (a uncommon factor for me),” Parton stated. “He gave the impression to be genuinely concerned about discovering out who I used to be and what I used to be about.”
Dean stored principally personal all through Dolly’s many years of fame — he was a businessman who at one level owned an asphalt-paving firm in Nashville. On Bunnie Xo’s Dumb Blonde podcast in December 2024, Parton shared that whereas Dean was supportive of her profession, he most popular to remain residence from fancy occasions. In 1967, she requested him to go together with her to the BMI Awards, to which he stated, “‘Look, I would like you to do something you need to do, however by no means ask me to go to a different one in every of issues once more.’ And he by no means did.”
In an interview with The Related Press in 1984, Parton quipped, “Lots of people say there’s no Carl Dean, that he’s simply someone I made as much as preserve different individuals off me.” In actuality, Parton instructed Bunnie Xo all about their opposites-attract dynamic: “He’s quiet, and I’m loud, and we’re humorous. Oh, he’s hilarious. And I believe one of many issues that’s made it final so lengthy by way of the years is that we love one another, we respect one another, however we have now a number of enjoyable. Anytime issues get an excessive amount of rigidity happening, both of us discover a joke about it.”
Dean and Parton by no means had youngsters. Dean is survived by Parton, and his siblings Sandra and Donnie.