RIP Dolly Parton (80) - Jan 1946 - Aug 2026

[Astronuc]

American icon known for her music, acting and philanthropy has died on August 25 following a recent diagnosis of cancer.
https://apnews.com/newsletter/morning-wire/august-26-2026

• Parton is the third-most nominated woman in Grammy history. She wrote hundreds of songs, including classics like “Jolene,” “Coat of Many Colors” and “I Will Always Love You.”
• Her career was forever influenced by her upbringing as one of 12 children born into what she called a “dirt poor” Tennessee family. She started her education nonprofit, Imagination Library, to send free books to children in Tennessee because her father, who quit school to work on the farm, struggled to learn to read.
• Parton spanned social and political divides, through multiple generations of fans, urban and rural and in between. Taylor Swift, Paul McCartney, Dionne Warwick, Jane Fonda, Linda Ronstadt and more shared heartfelt messages highlighting Parton’s impact and legacy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolly_Parton

https://apnews.com/video/dolly-part...-aps-archive-000001a03bcddaf4afa5ffddca2f0000

https://www.foxnews.com/live-news/country-legend-dolly-parton-dead-80

https://www.usatoday.com/story/ente...-cyrus-death-godmother-august-25/91467784007/

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment...ountry-legend-dies-from-cancer-184445512.html

 

[DaveC426913]

Dammit Reaper!

I said Donny not Dolly!

 

[nsaspook]

 

[mathwonk]

My brother was practicing backstage with Bill Monroe at a bluegrass festival in 1967, to which Porter Wagoner had also been invited, when Dolly Parton, age 21, came up and said she really enjoyed his fiddling. She was quite attractive and his bandmates asked him how he knew her. He told them he did not know her, and never saw her before in his life. She was apparently just a nice person, (and appreciated good fiddling).