Carl Dean, the husband of legendary singer Dolly Parton, handed away on Monday, on the age 82, with Parton issuing a press release on the passing.
Information of Dean’s passing was introduced by Parton on social media. In a quote within the announcement, Parton thanked followers for prayers and sympathies, and mirrored on their marriage of over 60 years.
“Carl and I spent many great years collectively,” Parton mentioned. “Phrases can’t do justice to the love we shared for over 60 years. Thanks on your prayers and sympathy.”
— Dolly Parton (@DollyParton) March 4, 2025
Dean and Parton met greater than 60 years in the past, when Dean — who was an asphalt paver — met the musical legend at a laundromat. Whereas Parton rose to superstardom, Dean lived a extra non-public life, with Parton beforehand saying that her husband by no means actually cared a lot for the highlight, describing him as a “quiet reserved individual” in a 2020 interview with Entertainment Tonight.
“It’s simply not who he’s,” Parton mentioned. “He’s like, a quiet, reserved individual and he figured if he ever acquired on the market in that, he’d by no means get a minute’s peace and he’s proper about that.”
Dean was born in 1942, and met Parton in 1964, on the primary day Parton moved to Nashville, Tennessee, in response to Parton’s website. They married two years later, and lived on a farm outdoors of Nashville for a number of years. Parton’s iconic 1973 track “Jolene” was partly impressed by Dean, who would usually be flirted with by a financial institution teller at any time when he would go to the financial institution.
“He simply cherished going to the financial institution as a result of she paid him a lot consideration,” Parton said in a 2008 interview with National Public Radio. “It was form of like a operating joke between us — after I was saying, ‘Hell, you’re spending quite a lot of time on the financial institution. I don’t consider we’ve acquired that form of cash.’ So it’s actually an harmless track throughout, however appears like a dreadful one.”
