Loretta Lynn, the country music icon who groundbreaking songs dealt candidly with poverty, women’s struggles and, in the great song “Coal Miner’s Daughter” her own life, died Tuesday at her home in Hurricane Mills, Tennessee. She was 90.
Her death was announced by her family. In a statement, Lynn’s family said she died Tuesday at her home in Hurricane Mills, Tennessee.
“Our precious mom, Loretta Lynn, passed away peacefully this morning, October 4th, in her sleep at home at her beloved ranch in Hurricane Mills,” the statement reads.
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One of the greatest female singer-songwriters in country music history – arguable the greatest, certainly the most influential – Lynn chronicled her life and struggles over the course of a 60-year career, both in song and in the 1976 autobiography that became a hit 1980 movie — both titled Coal Miner’s Daughter — that earned Sissy Spacek...
Her death was announced by her family. In a statement, Lynn’s family said she died Tuesday at her home in Hurricane Mills, Tennessee.
“Our precious mom, Loretta Lynn, passed away peacefully this morning, October 4th, in her sleep at home at her beloved ranch in Hurricane Mills,” the statement reads.
Related: Hollywood & Media Deaths 2022: A Photo Gallery
One of the greatest female singer-songwriters in country music history – arguable the greatest, certainly the most influential – Lynn chronicled her life and struggles over the course of a 60-year career, both in song and in the 1976 autobiography that became a hit 1980 movie — both titled Coal Miner’s Daughter — that earned Sissy Spacek...
- 10/4/2022
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
One of country's greatest legends - that Loretta Lynn was married at 13 - has been shot down by a new report that the Coal Miner's Daughter, believed to be 77, is really three years older than she claims to be. Combing through the records at the state Office of Vital Statistics in Frankfort, Ky., and checking the records of relatives', the Associated Press reports that Lynn was born April 14, 1932, in the Bluegrass State's Johnson County and is actually 80. As was memorably told in her bestselling 1976 autobiography Coal Miner's Daughter, which then became a 1980 box-office hit that won a Best Actress Oscar for leading lady Sissy Spacek,...
- 5/22/2012
- by Stephen M. Silverman
- PEOPLE.com
Louisville, Ky. — Country music legend Loretta Lynn is three years older than she has led people to believe, an age change that undermines the story she told of being married at 13 in "Coal Miner's Daughter," documents obtained by The Associated Press show.
Lynn's birth certificate on file at the state Office of Vital Statistics in Frankfort, Ky., shows that Loretta Webb was born on April 14, 1932, in Johnson County, Kentucky. That makes her 80 years old, not 77. Also on file is her marriage license and two affidavits from her mother, Clara Marie Ramey, and S.W. Ward Jr., who was not related to the family, listing the same birthdate.
The records weren't filed until 1965, which meant that Lynn needed multiple documents to prove her age at that time. Lynn's signature appears on the document as Loretta Webb Lynn.
Melvin Webb lists his daughter "Loretta" as 7 years old for the 1940 Census, according to...
Lynn's birth certificate on file at the state Office of Vital Statistics in Frankfort, Ky., shows that Loretta Webb was born on April 14, 1932, in Johnson County, Kentucky. That makes her 80 years old, not 77. Also on file is her marriage license and two affidavits from her mother, Clara Marie Ramey, and S.W. Ward Jr., who was not related to the family, listing the same birthdate.
The records weren't filed until 1965, which meant that Lynn needed multiple documents to prove her age at that time. Lynn's signature appears on the document as Loretta Webb Lynn.
Melvin Webb lists his daughter "Loretta" as 7 years old for the 1940 Census, according to...
- 5/19/2012
- by AP
- Huffington Post
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- 9/14/2010
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- 9/14/2010
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- 9/14/2010
- The Advocate
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- 9/14/2010
- The Advocate
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- 9/14/2010
- The Advocate
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- 9/14/2010
- The Advocate
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- 9/14/2010
- The Advocate
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- 9/14/2010
- The Advocate
Just in time to satiate tennis fans after the finish of the U.S Open, a new Espn documentary about the legendary rivalry between Martina Navratilova and Chris Evert is set to premiere Tuesday night on Espn. Unmatched, from filmmakers Lisa Lax and Nancy Stern Winters and producer Hannah Storm, focuses on the relationship of seeming opposites who captivated the world during the golden age of women’s tennis in the 1970s and '80s, when Navratilova and Evert played each other 80 times. "Chrissie" was portrayed as America's sweetheart, whereas "Navrat the Brat," who defected from her native Czechoslovakia in 1975, was often portrayed as a villain. Sportswriter Johnette Howard also chronicled the unlikely relationship in her 2005 book The Rivals: Chris Evert vs. Martina Navratilova Their Epic Duels and Extraordinary Friendship. “Unmatched, a documentary on Espn as part of its ongoing anniversary 30 for 30 series, is a lovely and remarkable little film,...
- 9/14/2010
- The Advocate
Recently a couple of old baseball stars named Gibson and Jackson -- National Leaguer pitcher and American League hitter -- have been pushing a book that they've published, bantering about who would have got the best of whom and comparing the game that they knew with the game they see today. "I don 't know if the game has changed," Bob Gibson, now 74, told George Vecsey of The New York Times, "but the people have changed." Actually the game changed radically in the decade after Gibson retired, which was the latter half of Reggie Jackson's career. They are being presented now as virtual contemporaries, but in fact Gibson played in one era, while Jackson, now 63, played in two. A quick glance at their year-by-year records reveals this immediately. Gibson pitched his entire career, from 1959 to 1975,...
- 10/14/2009
- by Robert E. Murphy
- Huffington Post
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