- Born
- Died
- Birth nameLoretta Webb
- Nicknames
- The First Lady of Country Music
- Country Music's First Girl Singer
- The Coal Miner's Daughter
- The Queen of Country Music
- Height5′ 1″ (1.55 m)
- Loretta Lynn was born on April 14, 1932 in Butcher Hollow, Kentucky, USA. She was a music artist and actress, known for The New Mutants (2020), High Crimes (2002) and Logan Lucky (2017). She was married to Oliver Lynn. She died on October 4, 2022 in Hurricane Mills, Tennessee, USA.
- SpouseOliver Lynn(January 10, 1948 - August 22, 1996) (his death, 6 children)
- Children
- RelativesEmmy Russell(Grandchild)
- Married Oliver Lynn at age 16. Four of their six children were born by the time Loretta was 21. She became a first-time grandmother at age 34.
- Related to singer Patty Loveless. Older sister of Crystal Gayle.
- Oldest daughter, Betty Sue Lynn, died from emphysema on July 29, 2013.
- Oldest son, Jack Benny Lynn, drowned while fording the Duck River at the family's ranch on July 22, 1984.
- One of five recipients of the 2003 Kennedy Center Honors; other recipients were James Brown, Carol Burnett, Mike Nichols and Itzhak Perlman.
- When I was 14 I lived like a 35-year-old, and when I was 35 I lived like a 14-year-old.
- I never knew where babies came from until it happened to me.
- I didn't know I was talented. Everybody in Butcher Hollow sang, it seemed like.
- [on starting out in her career] We would drive to a radio station and I would go in with my record. Some of them would say they couldn't play it, or they wouldn't play it, and some of them played it while I was there. I just sat there until they played it. I imagine they thought to themselves, "This girl is going to stay here all night if we don't play her record.".
- [on Patsy Cline] She was my closest friend. She was the only person, other than my husband, I could turn to in a crisis. There was a lot of resentment when I first came to town. But Patsy was strong-willed and always taking up for me. If it hadn't been for her, I don't think I would have lasted.
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