This past January, the singer paid tribute to her late husband on their anniversary with a sweet post on Instagram. In real life, the pair shared six children: Betty Sue, who died in 2013, Jack Benny, who died in 1984, Cissy, 70, Ernest Ray, 68, and twins Peggy and Patsy, 58.ĭoo died in 1996 at age 69 of complications from diabetes and heart failure. There were plenty of bad moments in our marriage, but I've always respected my husband's common sense… I feel safe when he's around." I don't want to say he's never fooled around, or gotten drunk, or whipped me into line a little, because that ain't the truth. He's worked hard all his life to get things for me and the kids. She described their marriage as such in her memoir: "In most ways, Doo has been a good husband. MediaPunch Inc / Alamy Stock Photo "Doo" Lynn and Loretta Lynn in 1981 during 53rd Annual Academy Awards' Governor's Ball at Beverly Hilton Hotel Loretta Lynn and husband Oliver Mooney Lynn, Jr. RELATED: Country Stars Mourn the Loss of 'Icon' Loretta Lynn: 'One of the Greatest There Ever Will Be' So in a real sense, Doolittle is responsible for everything we got." "I wouldn't have started singing in the first place, and I wouldn't have had the inspiration for some of my best songs, in the second place. "If it wasn't for Doolittle, there would be no career," Lynn wrote in Coal Miner's Daughter. He even served as her talent manager for many years.įor more on Loretta Lynn, listen below to our daily podcast PEOPLE Every Day. Still, she has credited her late husband with kick-starting her career it was he who bought Lynn her first guitar, and Doo who helped spread her music to local radio stations. "I went from Daddy to Doo, and there's always been a man telling me what to do." "Sometimes my husband tells me, 'I raised you the way I wanted you to be.' And it's true," Lynn wrote in her 1976 memoir Coal Miner's Daughter.
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Loretta Lynn and husband Oliver Mooney Lynn.
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